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- From: lloyd@upsilon.cs.fsu.edu (Justin C Lloyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How can I use huge || very small number?
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 12:36:03 GMT
- Organization: FSU Computer Science Department
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- On 1 Apr 1996 12:08:53 GMT, Usman Muzaffar (muzaffar@casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
- wrote:
- ** In article <315681F3.314D@blue.nowcom.co.kr>,
- ** whoever <whatever@blue.nowcom.co.kr> wrote:
- ** >may be it is FAQ but...
- ** >how can I compute 10000! or 0.12345......
-
- ** 10000! is a very, very big number.
- ** I'm not sure it's even representable by standard IEEE fp notation.
- ** Any have that formula? 2*pi*e something or another.
-
-
- I'm sorry that I don't remember the location (possibly sunsite.unc.edu?),
- but there was a collection of C snippets/programs that contained a program
- that "calculated" huge factorials by using strings. I don't recall the
- algorithm, it was quite complicated. Anyone else know what I'm referring
- to?
-
- JcL
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