Re: factorial function

2003-11-26 Thread Shawn O'Donnell
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create an array to hold the value of 1000 factorial? Do you mean 1000! That's a super-sized number--something like 10-to-the-2566th power, if I am using Sterling's approximation correctly. I don't know of a numeric type that stores such animals. If you

RE: design - help

2003-10-13 Thread Shawn O'Donnell
At 06:53 PM +0100 10/13/03, Steve Massey wrote: a line like2 (5)cannot be expected, what can be expected is that after a count of 23 there will be the next number OR 22 there will be a blank line followed by the next sequence number. So the line will just be Aha! Writing code to parse