One clue is that factorial(171) is too big to fit as a long int in python. This is somehow handled better by the pre-parsing I guess.
-Marshall On Mar 7, 6:25 am, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:14:41AM -0800, jyr wrote: > > sage: print ln(factorial(171)*1.0) > > 711.714725802290 > > If, on the other hand, you save it to a python file and execute it via > > the attach() command you get: > > inf > > Is this a bug or am I missing something obvious? > > sage: attach mytest.sage > 711.714725802290 > sage: attach mytest.py > inf > > Not sure the exact reason, and what is happening underneath, > as it is clearly not pure python running. > > regards, > Jan > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
