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?

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