I'm new to Julia myself and not an expert, but tried to give an answer to a similar question on quora:
http://www.quora.com/Is-Julia-ready-for-production-use/answer/Eric-Forgy On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 11:28:58 AM UTC+8, Carlos Baptista wrote: > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > C. F. Baptista > > On 13 January 2015 at 04:26, Isaiah Norton <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> https://gmplib.org/ >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Carlos Baptista <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> 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] >>> <javascript:>> wrote: >>> >>>> julia> factorial(big(171)) >>>> >>>> 1241018070217667823424840524103103992616605577501693185388951803611996075221691752992751978120487585576464959501670387052809889858690710767331242032218484364310473577889968548278290754541561964852153468318044293239598173696899657235903947616152278558180061176365108428800000000000000000000000000000000000000000 >>>> >>>> > On Jan 12, 2015, at 22:17 , Isaiah Norton <[email protected] >>>> <javascript:>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > julia> factorial(big(21)) >>>> > 51090942171709440000 >>>> > >>>> > (Julia doesn't auto-promote) >>>> > >>>> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Carlos Baptista <[email protected] >>>> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>> 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/. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
