I had lunch with some mathematicians today. One of them bet that I could
not calculate 200! by the start of our final-examination meeting. Just
twenty minute later I handed him the solution calulated in Pop. Most of the
time had been spent walking back to my lab from lunch, and then walking to his.
Without asking me the time taken for the computation he bet I could not
calculate a really big factorial number by the end of the meeting. I
have just handed him 20 000!
Well done bigint, well done the garbage collector!
James Anderson
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