** ** ** ** ** now we will look at the numbers themselves we can ask the question "how big can an integer be?mathematicallyof coursethere is no limit in computer there are always limits each computer has only finite amount of memory to store information so there has to be limit we will see that python has no limits in principle and it is only the technical limit of the computer that can restrict us in practice this is never an issue for the size of integers we will experiment with large integers by repeated squaring we start with and keep squaring