https://gmplib.org/ On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Carlos Baptista <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh nice, I just did factorial(1000000) and it actually produced an answer. > What kind of arcane magic is used to make this possible? > > Regards, > > C. F. Baptista > > On 13 January 2015 at 04:22, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> julia> factorial(big(171)) >> >> 1241018070217667823424840524103103992616605577501693185388951803611996075221691752992751978120487585576464959501670387052809889858690710767331242032218484364310473577889968548278290754541561964852153468318044293239598173696899657235903947616152278558180061176365108428800000000000000000000000000000000000000000 >> >> > On Jan 12, 2015, at 22:17 , Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > julia> factorial(big(21)) >> > 51090942171709440000 >> > >> > (Julia doesn't auto-promote) >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Carlos Baptista <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I understand that factorial(21) is quite a large number and therefore >> an OverflowError is perfectly understandable. However, with Octave I can go >> up to factorial(170) (if I go higher I receive Inf). Is there a way to go >> beyond factorial(20) in Julia? >> >> -- >> Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> >> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/ >> >> My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting >> and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://pgp.mit.edu/. >> >> >
