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.