On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:07 PM, I wrote:
On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
If you can get me a program to run it, I could do it here.... Not sure how long it would take, but it would get done, anyway.
If you feel like hacking and compiling your own Java applet, give this a whirl, though I don't know how well it'll handle any really long numbers:
<http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java-ent/jnut/ch01_03.htm>
Huh. Just tried it; it returns 'Infinity' for 5,565,709!. Obviously a factorial on a large number needs a kind of juggling that a quasi-64-bit OS running Java can't hack out of the box...
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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