http://www.spoj.pl/problems/TMUL/ Python's "print a * b" gets Time Limit Exceeded. ============================================= PHP's code ============================================= fscanf(STDIN, "%d\n", &$tcs); while ($tcs--) { fscanf(STDIN, "%s %s\n", &$n, &$m); echo bcmul($n, $m, 0)."\n"; } ============================================= does it in 4.8s