On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:23 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
If you can get me a program to run it,
<<http://store.wolfram.com/catalog/>>
US$900! (Won't bother trying to calculate that.) Ouch! I hadn't realized Mathematica was that significantly priced.
Humm. Humm. Googlicious ... OK, here's an interesting package called HartMath, which appears to do symbolic calculations, is Java based (!) and is free:
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=5083&package_id=9297>
I DLed the .jar, the first on the list, 0.8pre2. And when I entered 900! and clicked the "Symbolic evaluation" button I got a damn big number, which was much more satisfying than the infinity symbol I got when I clicked "Numeric evaluation".
This might show more promise for calculating 5,565,709! than a basic Java hack.
-- 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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