How to get decimal form of largest known prime?

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Claudio Grondi wrote:

> Now knowing you [Tim Peters] as a Python and programming
> expert, may I ask you even for more support by providing a
> reply to my other posting to this newsgroup:

Before anything else, read this! I read it several times a month, just
to remind myself :)
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Specifically, it's best to *never* address a new question to a specific
expert, for a number of reasons:

1. They may not know the answer;

2. Other people who do know the answer may not respond as a result;

3. Experts tend to pick and choose based on what they're interested in;

4. Experts tend to have a limited amount of time available to deal with
questions.

In particular, *don't* latch on to one person, just because they
answered one question.

Tim Peters is one of the primary developers *of* Python. We're very
lucky that he happens to really like questions involving numeric stuff,
and goes out of his way to answer them (and does a lot of development of
the numeric stuff in Python). He knows the Python internals well beyond
most of us mere mortals (I must admit, I hadn't looked much at
longobject.c and didn't know it used base 10000).

Cheers.

Tim Delaney