why does math.pow yields OverflowError (while python itself can calculate that large number)

Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Thu Oct 23 17:51:34 EDT 2008


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:40:22 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> This can be written more straigth forward as ``100**155`` or ``pow(100,
> 155)``.  No need for `eval()`\ing a string.

But how else can the OP get an order of magnitude slow-down on an 
operation that is slow in the first place?

*wink*



-- 
Steven



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