Re: [Nolug] In case you wanted to know how big 2 to the 3,000,000 is...

Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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!
>
>
This is with an Athlon 750, 768MB@PC133, using 85% cpu with the other
bit for F@H

$ time python -c 'print str(2**3000000)'
903090

real 37m25.302s
user 32m4.510s
sys 0m0.000s

Hmmm....should I spend the $60 to upgrade?

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