Comments on: Disclaimer http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com Just another Oracle blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: pitzl http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/why-dont-my-results-match-yours/#comment-3374 pitzl Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:55:42 +0000 http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/?page_id=92#comment-3374 While perl may not be able to handle large calculations, ruby seems to be completely at home with it - C:> C:>perl -e "print 2**1442" 1.#INF C:> C:>ruby -e "print 2**1442" 121689679549848296476284539719833956128172746808983983951831652023347365468864269429292576963439508278182027446718540810569381644337220853815156314657613612239712834757924740882197032736054344801343165356558510233936904806426545855737390911634598080775602523511373106777607060088046178460822014203870855117130108554646318067801134685013852825258691387386426550771312213642678910868232892059330844780618615710006156570567711150890287104 C:> C:> That's a number with 435 digits ! While perl may not be able to handle large calculations, ruby seems to be completely at home with it -

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C:>perl -e “print 2**1442″
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C:>ruby -e “print 2**1442″
121689679549848296476284539719833956128172746808983983951831652023347365468864269429292576963439508278182027446718540810569381644337220853815156314657613612239712834757924740882197032736054344801343165356558510233936904806426545855737390911634598080775602523511373106777607060088046178460822014203870855117130108554646318067801134685013852825258691387386426550771312213642678910868232892059330844780618615710006156570567711150890287104
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That’s a number with 435 digits !

]]> By: osborne http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/why-dont-my-results-match-yours/#comment-1557 osborne Sun, 10 May 2009 17:10:29 +0000 http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/?page_id=92#comment-1557 Thanks Pekka. Now I know! Thanks Pekka. Now I know!

]]> By: pekka http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/why-dont-my-results-match-yours/#comment-1552 pekka Sun, 10 May 2009 13:35:06 +0000 http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/?page_id=92#comment-1552 Answer from Maple10 tells result has 436 numbers : 121689679549848296476284539719833956128172746808983983951831652023347365468864269429292576963439508278182027446718540810569381644337220853815156314657613612239712834757924740882197032736054344801343165356558510233936904806426545855737390911634598080775602523511373106777607060088046178460822014203870855117130108554646318067801134685013852825258691387386426550771312213642678910868232892059330844780618615710006156570567711150890287104 Answer from Maple10 tells result has 436 numbers : 121689679549848296476284539719833956128172746808983983951831652023347365468864269429292576963439508278182027446718540810569381644337220853815156314657613612239712834757924740882197032736054344801343165356558510233936904806426545855737390911634598080775602523511373106777607060088046178460822014203870855117130108554646318067801134685013852825258691387386426550771312213642678910868232892059330844780618615710006156570567711150890287104

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