How to get decimal form of largest known prime?
Irmen de Jong
irmen at -nospam-remove-this-xs4all.nl
Thu Jun 10 18:44:26 EDT 2004
Daniel Yoo wrote:
>>>>x = 2**2436583 - 1
[...]
>>>>(x / 10) % 10
>
> 0L
> ###
>
> At least we can figure out that the number ends with a '07'. If we
> continue this way, we can quickly get the other digits.
^^^^^^^
Sadly, no you can't. Just try it ;-)
>>> i=1
>>> while True:
... print (x/i)%10,
... i*=10
...
7 0 4 9 6 9 5 4 4 4 1 8...... slower and slower.....
--Irmen
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