[Tutor] OverflowError: cannot fit 'long' into an index-sized integer

[Keith Winston]

I had heard of Project Euler long ago, but completely forgotten it. It
looks fun!! Thanks for reminding me of it.

Keith


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:58 AM, eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Jorge L. <dalveen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When i test that script against 600851475143 I get the following error
>
> You're trying to create a list with over 600 billion items.
> sys.maxsize is a bit over 2 billion for 32-bit CPython, but switching
> to 64-bit won't help unless you have a few terabytes of memory (8
> bytes per pointer). You need to rethink your approach to generating
> primes.
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-- 
Keith
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