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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by emergie on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:11PM (#20899442)
nah, bigint is just another wall you may hit

bc/dc arbitrary precision calculators are usually installed by default on *nix platforms and they handle numbers with thousands of digits

$ time echo '12345^67890' |bc |wc -c

285941

real 0m2.137s

user 0m2.128s

sys 0m0.012s

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by HALtheWise on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:21PM (#20900023)
Python's default number implementation has full support for arbitrarily large numbers, and will allocate more memory as needed to do so, making the original claim correct.
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