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 19:56:42 -0500
Message-Id: <1088643402.29741.2.camel@haggis.homelan>

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:43 -0500, Brad Bendily wrote:
> > It took about 15 minutes on my Athlon(tm) XP 2200+. Shoulda
> > timed it.

$ time python -c 'print str(2**3000000)'

real 14m15.753s
user 13m1.612s
sys 0m0.606s

> I have a P4 1.4 Ghz machine. I was doing a few other things at the time
> too...
>
>
> Wed Jun 30 15:49:54 CDT 2004
> 903090
> Wed Jun 30 16:23:23 CDT 2004
>
>
> 33 minutes!

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