On 7/16/10 12:30 PM, bart.c wrote:
they have to be exact. So if you wanted to hardcode 1000! for some reason, you'd need some 2568 digits which is a little awkward on one line.
No, only 20 digits >>> math.factorial(1000) 402387260077093773543702433923003985719374 ... Most big ints people want to work with can be encoded similarly. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list