alt Hacker NewsReminds me of: Professor asked us to find the biggest factorial using C programming language. And then using LISP. You can imagine our surprise.
Reminds me of: Professor asked us to find the biggest factorial using C programming language. And then using LISP. You can imagine our surprise.
There is a algorithm call Prime Swing Factorial that can compute large factorials exactly in arbitrary precision math using prime factorization. Like 10000000! in under second depending of how optimized the math library it. Probably like 100x faster than the normal method.