That means that python switched to a whole different suit of algoritms and stores the result no longer as a number but as a string, as a word processor does with text.

Basically, it stops using the numerical unit in the microprocessor and handles calculations by (its own) software algorithms. = SLOOOOOOOOW, although with todays microprocessors, everything goes fast.

Certainly makes Python a very interesting piece of software.

Wouter

Last edited by Wouter; 01/16/08 12:05 PM.

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