On 12/5/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Not only does 4000! not work, but 400! doesn't even work. I just lost
> > demo "wow" factor points!
>
> It looks like the limit would be about factorial(256).
>
> The question remains, though, is this computational range good for
> anything excep
Bruce Momjian writes:
> The limit seems to be around 150k digits:
It's exactly 10^(128K), as I've mentioned more than once.
> So, with the patch, the storage length is going from 1000 digits to 508,
> but the computational length is reduced from around 150k digits to 508.
> Now, because no one
[ Moved to hackers for patch discussion.]
John D. Burger wrote:
> >> There are practical applications, eg, 1024-bit keys are fairly common
> >> objects in cryptography these days, and that equates to about 10^308.
> >> I don't really foresee anyone trying to run crypto algorithms with SQL
> >> NU
