Re: The next exercise

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> Emacs can still do that:
>>
>> (let ((integer-width 200000))
>>      (substring (number-to-string (expt 10001 10000)) 0 4))
>> => "2718"
>
> Indeed:
>
> (let ((integer-width 20000000))
>      (substring (number-to-string (expt 1000001 1000000)) 0 6))
> ==> 271828
>
> 6 digits from e.  But there it starts to take some time.

So how big an integer can you put into `integer-width'?

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