Posted by stephane ducasse on Oct 09, 2013; 5:06am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Factorial-p175-tp4713318p4713399.html

Hello

We will rephrase the sentence. The point is that 1000 factorial more than a single integer.
Did you check its number of digits?

Stef

On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:11 AM, blake <[hidden email]> wrote:

> "Note that 1000 factorial is really calculated which in many other languages can be quite difficult to compute. This is an excellent example of automatic coercion and exact handling of a number."
>
> I think what's trying to be said here is that--no, I don't get the first sentence at all. In what language is it difficult to compute a factorial? I guess a lot don't have built-in functions but--I feel like I'm missing the point.
>
> Then I think, maybe the point is you would have to do the coercion and "exact handling" of the number, as indicated in the next sentence, and that's what's meant by that. But the beginning reader isn't going to know what that means.
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