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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: No overflow in variables?
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> (Which
> means, no, Python cannot represent Graham's Number in an int. Sorry
> about that.)

This is probably a good thing. I'm told that any computer
with enough RAM to hold Graham's number would, from entropy
considerations alone, have enough mass to become a black
hole.

-- 
Greg