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  1. Path: casbah.acns.nwu.edu!muzaffar
  2. From: muzaffar@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Usman Muzaffar)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: How can I use huge || very small number?
  5. Date: 1 Apr 1996 12:08:53 GMT
  6. Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
  7. Message-ID: <4joh0l$jch@news.acns.nwu.edu>
  8. References: <315681F3.314D@blue.nowcom.co.kr>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: casbah.acns.nwu.edu
  10.  
  11. In article <315681F3.314D@blue.nowcom.co.kr>,
  12. whoever  <whatever@blue.nowcom.co.kr> wrote:
  13. >may be it is FAQ but...
  14. >how can I compute 10000! or 0.12345......
  15.  
  16. 10000! is a very, very big number.
  17. I'm not sure it's even representable by standard IEEE fp notation.
  18. Any have that formula? 2*pi*e something or another.
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