julia> factorial(big(171)) 1241018070217667823424840524103103992616605577501693185388951803611996075221691752992751978120487585576464959501670387052809889858690710767331242032218484364310473577889968548278290754541561964852153468318044293239598173696899657235903947616152278558180061176365108428800000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> On Jan 12, 2015, at 22:17 , Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > > julia> factorial(big(21)) > 51090942171709440000 > > (Julia doesn't auto-promote) > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Carlos Baptista <[email protected]> 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]> 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/.
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