From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: bigger integers
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:18:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rotbhc.m6.ln@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1324.1094164438.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote on Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:28:17
-0500:
> This fails on big numbers like 12.
> (defun factorial (num)
> (if (<= num 0)
> 1
> (* num (factorial (1- num)))))
> Suggestions on how to make it work for bigger numbers?
Why on earth do you want to write a program for a calculation than just
about anybody could do in his head?
12! is, of course, 478,002,600. ;-)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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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 [this message]
2004-09-04 11:09 ` Neil Woods
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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2004-09-02 22:28 Joe Corneli
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