[FOM] Feasible and Utterable Numbers

Apostolos Syropoulos apostolo at ocean1.ee.duth.gr
Mon Aug 7 03:36:42 EDT 2006


On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 V.Sazonov at csc.liv.ac.uk wrote:

> Quoting Mirco Mannucci <mmannucc at cs.gmu.edu> Sun, 06 Aug 2006:
>
>> After all, most people would agree that 2^100 is a feasible number,
>> even though not many have actually  DONE the
>> computation.
>
> NOBODY DID!

Then I am the first one with the following Perl code:

use bignum;
print 2**1000;
__END__

And the answer is 
10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117055336074437503
88370351051124936122493198378815695858127594672917553146825187
14528569231404359845775746985748039345677748242309854210746050
62371141877954182153046474983581941267398767559165543946077062
914571196477686542167660429831652624386837205668069376

Regards,

A.S.

PS This has been demonstrated in a previous message, but I am
reposting it just in case someone has forgot it.

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