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On Oct 22, 2014, at 12:29, Peter Otten wrote:

> That looks like log(a) while a parity check takes constant time:
> $ python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 10**10' 'a & 1'


Do you mean 'parity' as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit ?  Because a parity bit denotes whether the *number* of '1' bits is even or odd, not the value of the least significant bit.

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      Re: (-1)**1000 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-22 12:29 +0200
      Re: (-1)**1000 Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2014-10-22 12:38 +0200
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