Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > 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) Dan Track wrote: > Wow. Great thanks for that. The last part of your number does it mean > there are 216000000 zeros in the final figure, or is it 216000001 > zeros? 216 000 000. 10^1 = 10, which has one zero, and two digits. 10^4 = 10 000, which has four zeros, and five digits. 2 * 10^4 = 20 000, which also has four zeros, and five digits. And so on. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Top Tip: If you are being chased by a police dog, don't aprilcottage.co.uk | try to get away by crawling through a tunnel, going onto | a little see-saw, and jumping through a hoop of fire. | They are trained for that, you see. | -- "Bystander", London magistrate -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list