TerseMan challenge

Travis Griggs tgriggs at keyww.com
Wed Jan 12 18:46:52 UTC 2000


Andres Valloud wrote:

> Hi Travis.
>
> > > I have found this class incredibly useful for my number crunching.
> > I played around with this for a while and didn't get the same results.
> > First of all baselined the 10 factorial send. I was getting values
> > (for 10000 iterations) of about 578 mills. Then I ran your code:
>
> Ohhh... those are just examples of usage... the real benefit comes when
> you want to find out the value of say 1000!... that's why I was
> mentioning 3 * 2^1000 and 64! * 65. For instance, when calculating 100!,
> here are the numbers I get...

Ah ha! I get it. Your and Marcel's posts clarify where and why this thing does so well (LargeIntegers). That's actually kind of cool. Thanks for the
clarifications and further explanations.

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Travis Griggs (a.k.a. Lord of the Fries)
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