I am guessing, that like Matlab, octave uses doubles to represent integers, and hence you can go a bit farther than with integers. That should be the same as factorial(21.0) in julia. Of course, you can also use BigInt and such, which has already been discussed here.
-viral On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 8:40:06 AM UTC+5:30, Carlos Baptista 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? >
