Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Di 19. Okt 2004, 19:49:44]:
>> Is it the intended operation of the 'factorial' program on the Parrot >> examples page to >> truncate the results? Looks like a bug to me... > I have checked the factorial example on > http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/pasm.html. > Starting with 13! incorrect results are indeed returned on my 32bit > Linux machine. > Should there a promotion to BigInt be taking place? on an overflow > indication? Most of the examples are really old and partially outdated. I think there should be very few PASM examples, more complex examples should be in PIR. Regarding the factorial: using .Integer PMCs would fix it. leo
