way to calculate 2**1000 without expanding it?

[Mark Dickinson]

On Sep 16, 9:17 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah go on, let's make a codegolf contest out of it.
> My entry:
>
> >>> sum(map(int,str(2**1000)))

You could save another character by replacing "2**1000" with "2<<999"

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Mark