On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:41:01AM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Dan Track wrote: > > Hi > > > > Does anybody know where bc stores its calucation while calculating a > > number. Basically I'm running 36000000^36000000. > > Rewriting it as (36^36000000) * (10 ^ 216000000) > will save calculating, storing, and printing the 216M zeros, > and will cut the first factor down to a "mere" 56M digits. Just for kicks, I did this on a 4GB dual Opteron 246 running x86_64 Rawhide. It took about 9 hours, and used about 200MB of VM (sorry, lost the output of "time"), but the end result is: (10656 ... <56026881 digits> ... 09376) * (10 ^ 216000000) I wonder how the various other packages supporting multiple precision (e.g., Pari) stack up. Regards, Bill Rugolsky
