way to calculate 2**1000 without expanding it?

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, zombie <thatiparthysreenivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>         i am writing a program to sum up the digits of a number 2**1000?
> Is there a way/formula to do it without expanding it?

Possibly, but why worry about it?  It's only around 300 digits.

Since this sounds like homework, I won't post the one-liner I used to
do it the brute-force way, but I will note that it takes about 200
microseconds to run on my laptop.

Cheers,
Ian