Re: factorial and exponent

Army1987 said:
"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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BiGYaN said:
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Use GMP library found in http://gmplib.org/
It will enable you to do "Arithmetic without Limitations" !!

Nonsense.

Consider an integer greater than or equal to 2. Call it A. Consider
another integer greater than or equal to 2. Call it B.

Raise A to the power B, storing the result in A. Now raise B to the
power A, storing the result in B. If you repeat this often enough,
you *will* hit a limit, no matter what numerical library you use.

But it is a limit of your computer, not of the library itself.

Nevertheless, it is a limit, and therefore the library *cannot* 'enable
you to do "Arithmetic without Limitations"', and therefore BiGYaN's
statement is nonsense.

Incidentally, you've just emerged from a 30-day spell in my sin bin. I
hope I won't have to chuck you back in there.

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Richard Heathfield
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