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Date Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:19:41 -0600
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 4/7/2015 1:44 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>>>>> def to_base(number, base):
>>
>> ...     digits = []
>> ...     while number > 0:
>> ...         digits.append(number % base)
>> ...         number //= base
>> ...     return digits or [0]
>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> to_base(2932903594368438384328325832983294832483258958495845849584958458435439543858588435856958650865490,
>>>>> 429496729)
>>
>> [27626525, 286159541, 134919277, 305018215, 329341598, 48181777,
>> 79384857, 112868646, 221068759, 70871527, 416507001, 31]
>> About 15 microseconds.
>
>
> % and probably // call divmod internally and toss one of the results.
> Slightly faster (5.7 versus 6.1 microseconds on my machine) is

Not on my box.

$ python3 -m timeit -s "n = 1000000; x = 42" "n % x; n // x"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.105 usec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "n = 1000000; x = 42" "divmod(n,x)"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.124 usec per loop

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Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 02:44 -0700
  Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-07 09:29 -0400
    Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 07:10 -0700
      Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-07 10:26 -0400
      Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 00:34 +1000
    Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 14:29 +0000
      Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 07:36 -0700
        Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 00:49 +1000
          Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 15:05 +0000
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-07 11:23 -0400
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 01:37 +1000
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-04-07 17:02 +0100
        Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-04-07 16:00 +0100
          Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 08:43 -0700
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-08 08:51 +1000
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        Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-07 11:04 -0400
        Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 09:06 -0600
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            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-04-07 20:06 -0400
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-04-08 12:49 +1200
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      Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 09:18 -0700
  Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 08:32 -0600
    Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 08:40 -0700
      Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-07 12:33 -0400
        Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 10:07 -0700
          Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 11:44 -0600
            Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-08 10:38 +1000
              Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-08 11:18 +1000
                Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 08:37 -0600
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                Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 17:35 -0600
                Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-08 00:28 -0700
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                Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-08 00:35 -0700
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