range error - or "How to take the factorial of a huge

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Apr 9 12:12:50 EDT 2004


On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 07:15 AM, Stephen Messimer wrote:

> I will use the information you provided in your earlier post and see 
> if that works.

Didn't Jim provide some cool info?

A couple ideas:

1.
Instead of fact(200)/fact(196) do this:  197 * 198 * 199 * 200

2.
Work with logs of expressions.

Dar Scott



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