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

Alex McKenzie wrote:

> 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?
> --
> Alex McKenzie alex@boxchain.com http://www.boxchain.com
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On an Athlon 1600+ using the same python program:
1590.240u 1.610s 27:11.33 97.5%
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