I’m doing a data analysis project where I’m working with really large numbers. I originally did everything in pure python but I’m now trying to do it with numpy and pandas. However it seems like I’ve hit a roadblock, since it is not possible to handle integers larger than 64 bits in numpy (if I use python ints in numpy they max out at 9223372036854775807). Do I just throw away numpy and pandas completely or is there a way to use them with python-style arbitrary large integers? I’m okay with a performance hit.
>Solution :
by default numpy keeps elements as number datatype.
But you can force typing to object, like below
import numpy as np
x = np.array([10,20,30,40], dtype=object)
x_exp2 = 1000**x
print(x_exp2)
the output is
[1000000000000000000000000000000
1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000]
The drawback is that the execution is much slower.