[Newbies] What's wrong with this statement?

[johnps11 at bigpond.com]

> El 7/31/08 5:31 PM, "Timothy J Miller" <tmiller at mitre.org> escribió:
>
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>>> But (2 raisedTo: 128) atRandom could genetate
>>> 49572205802560219958060582892667404289
>>>
>>> and
>>> 49572205802560219958060582892667404289 hex also is wrong print
>>> '254B42724A9684000000000000000001'
>>
>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26)
>>
>>>>> hex(49572205802560219958060582892667404289)
>> '0x254b42724a9684000000000000000001L'
>>
>> Hmmm.  Clearly I'm missing something.
>>
>> -- Tim
>
> Sorry by not thinking.
> Only see the 000000000000000001 end in your first and test 3.2 do same as
> 3.10
> Once hex was removed from image ...
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6441
> Edgar
>

The problem is not in hex (although there are problems trying to get a hex
representation of a IEEE float, which might be useful to some people). 
The reason I fixed hex was that the deprecation actually caused several
problems, as I discussed on Mantis.

John P Foster.