*sigh* Looks like my A in discrete was for attendance.
On 6/20/07, Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:
On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:02 AM, |/|/ Bendick wrote:
Ahh.. enlightening. If that is the case shouldn't (define big (expt 2 (expt 2 25))) fail? (It does not).
It's just shy of 2^24 *bytes*:
(integer-length (expt 2 (expt 2 26)))
67108865
(integer-length (expt 2 (expt 2 27)))
*** ERROR IN ##bignum.make -- Heap overflow
Brad