RE: [Nolug] In case you wanted to know how big 2 to the 3,000,000 is... from Ron Johnson on 2004-06-30 (nolugarchives)

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:47:09 -0500
Message-Id: <1088617629.25694.30.camel@haggis.homelan>

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:09 -0500, Chris Reames wrote:
> What??? No output???
> Now I'm gonna have to do it.

It took about 15 minutes on my Athlon(tm) XP 2200+. Shoulda
timed it.

I wonder how well gzip would be able to compress that string of
digits.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 01:06 AM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: [Nolug] In case you wanted to know how big 2 to the 3,000,000
> is...
>
>
>
> python -c 'print len(str(2**3000000))'
> 903090

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