How to waste computer memory?
BartC
bc at freeuk.com
Sat Mar 19 11:20:45 EDT 2016
On 19/03/2016 15:14, BartC wrote:
> Which is about 3000 decimal digits, slightly more than 1KB in packed
> binary. In BCD it would be 1.5KB. At one-byte per digit (eg. ASCII) it's
> 3KB. At 4 bytes per (eg. UCS4), it's 12KB.
The comment refers to this which inexplicably got snipped (not my fault
at all..):
[Steven D'Aprano:]
>> Now, I routinely
>> and without hesitation generate thousand-plus bit numbers like
>> 2**10000,
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Bartc
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