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Re: bigger integers
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: bigger integers |
Date: |
03 Sep 2004 02:11:16 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> 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?
Run it on a Common-Lisp implementation instead of emacs lisp.
After all, emacs lisp is designed to count characters in a file, not
to compute factorials.
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