How to get decimal form of largest known prime?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Wed Jun 16 05:45:05 EDT 2004
Tim Peters wrote:
> [M.-A. Lemburg]
>
>>The version that comes with mxNumber is GMP 3.1 which
>>AFAIR does not have the multiplication optiomizations
>>you were mentioning earlier in this thread. GMP 4.x should
>>be a lot faster... but then people usually don't print
>>large prime numbers every day :-)
>
> People who use GMP every day might surprise you <wink>.
Most probably :-)
>>FWIW, we're not working much on mxNumber anymore since it
>>was basically a toy project to research decimal number
>>interfacing in mxODBC. The licensing issues basically put
>>us off here, so we're still waiting for a nice C level
>>interface to one of the decimal type implementations
>>for Python out there.
>
>
> There should be a standard Decimal type in 2.4, but there won't be a C
> interface at first (it's pure Python code -- in Python CVS
> sandbox/decimal/).
Will it be turned into a C implementation at some point ?
> mxNumber isn't the same thing, but I've enjoyed
> using it since you first released it. Thanks for doing it!
Thanks.
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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