As an exercise that I thought would help me understand the decimal
module, I've been trying write a script (precisionFactorial.py) that
uses a modified fact(n) to compute precise factorials using the
decimal module. I''m getting nowhere fast, and don't understand why.
Here's what I have so far:
def fact(n):
"""
compute n!
"""
product = 1
while n > 1:
product *= n
n -= 1
return product
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# precisionFactorial.py
import decimal
def d(x):
return decimal.Decimal(str(x))
def fact(n):
product = 1
while d(n) > 1:
product *= n
d(n) -= 1
return product
n = 100
decimal.getcontext().prec = 200
print product
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This gets me
"Syntax error
Theres an error in your program.
*** can't assign to function call
(precisionFactorial.py, line 11)"
line 11 is "d(n) -= 1".
Advice, please.
Dick Moores
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Win XP, Python 2.4
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