How does bc work

[Dan Track]

On 10/11/06, Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/06, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> > > Does anybody know where bc stores its calucation while calculating a
> > > number. Basically I'm running 36000000^36000000.
> >
> > Er, you do realise that result will have about 272 million digits?
> >
> > --
> > Nothing ventured, nothing lost.
> >
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the heads up :). I realise its going to be big but it all
> started from someone challenging me about how quick my workstation
> could do that calculation. I've only started to see that bc might be
> eating up my memory, and was wondering if there's a way round this.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>

Actually How did you know it would contain that many digits?