Is there a way to provide a suggestion with the error?
It currently says this,
*julia> **factorial(21)*
*ERROR: OverflowError()*
* in factorial_lookup at combinatorics.jl:27*
* in factorial at combinatorics.jl:35*
Maybe it would be more useful if it said
*julia> **factorial(21)*
*ERROR: OverflowError("perhaps you want factorial(big(21)) instead?")*
* in factorial_lookup at combinatorics.jl:27*
* in factorial at combinatorics.jl:35*
On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 11:37:17 AM UTC-7, Viral Shah wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>
