Just a tidbit:
A neat function my friend came up with last year to figure out the
length of a whole number (now converted to python for your viewing
pleasure):
from math import log10 as log
from math import floor
def findNumberLength(number):
number = float(number)
x = log(number)
x
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:34 PM, kinuthiA muchanE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Er... er, that does not exactly work as expected but it narrows the
> search to only 3 candidates because of the inclusion of the zero:
>
> (28, '035714286')
> (38, '026315789')
> (81, '012345679')
>
> For 28, the d
