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Ever wondered what the maximum size of a numeric (10**1000) in PostgreSQL looks like? Here you go. #pretty
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p=1000;l=72;t=3;c=",";n="\n";z=0;w=" ";e=f="";P=p%l;(1..(4*l/t-(2+P+(P/t).floor))).each{|i|f+=w};(1..p).each{|i|q=(p-i+1);print(((i==1)?f.to_s+1.to_s():e)+(((q%t== 0)?c+((q%l==0)?n:e):e)+z.to_s)+((i==p)?n:e))};
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Are you taking patches for this ? :-)

python -c "import textwrap; print(textwrap.fill(' {:,}'.format(pow(10,1000)),72))"

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nicdoye commented Mar 6, 2016

Your version is 40% faster (Python 2.7.11 from homebrew vs Ruby 2.2.1p85 from RVM).

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