* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As a Pythonist who does a reasonable bit of scientific computing sorts > of calculations... I'll say that although I don't have time to see > just what it would do with this problem,
I guess not... > Scipy, a Python module that uses native libraries, seems to > perform quite well at such things once it one muddles through the > documentation to figure out the right way to attack the problem. Huh? factorial(N, exact=1) will calculate it using arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. But it is darn slow. I tried factorial(100000, exact=1) and it took more than a minute on my machine. Also, 10000! was only a couple seconds, so it looks like it is much worse than linear time. I'd hate to see what happens if you try 5M! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
