From: Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: bigger integers
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:09:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8jq47el.fsf@phun.phasmic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rotbhc.m6.ln@acm.acm
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>> Suggestions on how to make it work for bigger numbers?
Alan> Why on earth do you want to write a program for a calculation
Alan> than just about anybody could do in his head?
Alan> 12! is, of course, 478,002,600. ;-)
ITYM 479,001,600.
Besides, as has been already mentioned, the calc package does all this
and more.
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2004-09-02 23:10 ` bigger integers Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03 2:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-03 10:20 ` Phillip Lord
2004-09-04 8:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-09-04 11:09 ` Neil Woods [this message]
2004-09-06 0:00 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-17 19:45 ` giacomo boffi
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2004-09-03 23:29 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-07 17:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03 22:00 Joe Corneli
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