On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Brian Hurt wrote: > I comment that simply exactly *representing* a number of the form > 2^4000000000 takes like 476.8 megabytes. It could take 500 megabytes or about 476.8 mebibytes: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html But representation of 2^4000000000 using "2^4000000000" only requires 12 bytes, a considerable savings! Mike