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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:43:33 -0500
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- From: Howard Kaplon - Towson State University <E7M2KAP@TOWSONVX.BITNET>
- Subject: Calculators and Computers: Precision
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- Most calculators roll over into scientific notation when the values become
- large. In this mode, all of the calculators I have seen are limited to
- 99 as the largest exponent of 10 (i.e. E 99). 69! is approximately
- 1.7112 E 98 while 70! has an exponent of 10 that is 100; and this OVERFLOWS
- the exopnential memory section of the calculator.
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- for a desktop computer, although I have not tried yet, you should be able to
- get larger factorials by declaring the variables ad double precision.
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- Howard
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