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Sat Feb 9 00:22:51 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-February/076786.html

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> You mean, as the digits? You would have to rewrite the entire long
> datatype, which is a tedious exercise. Plus, I believe you would have
> to make some operations 64-bit on all systems: when you multiply
> digits today, the product will be 32-bit. If you extend the digits,
> you might get 64-bit results, which will be slow on 32-bit systems
> (plus some 32-bit systems don't support a 64-bit integer type at all
> in their compilers).

I pass! :)

It may be worth a try for Python 4.0 when most OS are 64bit.

Christian

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