Re: [perl #31980] Factorial example gives incorrect result

[Joshua Hoblitt]

-J

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote:
> Well, the problem is that Parrot indeed returns the incorrect values 
> that are
> mentioned in the webpage.

I'd like to propose that we fix the n! values listed on the examples page,
change the code example to the snippet below, and add a warning about BigInt's
requiring that GMP is installed.

--
        print   "The first 30 factorials are:\n"
        set I1, 0
        set I2, 30
        new P0, .BigInt
        set P0, 1
REDO:   inc I1
        mul P0, P0, I1
        print   P0
        print   "\n"
        lt  I1, I2, REDO
DONE:   end
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Cheers,

-J

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