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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60294] Function factorial for some numbers pr

From: Mike Miller
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60294] Function factorial for some numbers produces wrong results
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:58:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Update of bug #60294 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This is not a bug, you've just exceeded the precision that a double precision
floating point number can represent.

If you want to with with exact infinite precision numbers, use the vpa type
from the symbolic package.

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