On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Graham Gill <math.simplex@gmail.com> wrote:
10^(10^10) is a 1 followed by ten billion zeros. Naively evaluating that to an integer is going to cause time and memory problems in any software that supports arbitrary size integers - as Bob Ippolito said, it's

I wonder if they were looking for (**) instead of (^).

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