On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:46:22PM +0100, John P . Looney wrote:
> How easy would it be to write a tcl, C or C++ function to get the
> factorial of 5500 ? Scheme rocks!
I love <insert favourite language here> :)
But seriously, Python isn't so bad either! :)
def fact(num):
if num == 0:
return 1
else:
return fact(num - 1) * num
print fact(5500L)
Now insert gratuitous plug for web application system :)
And while I haven't actually done much with it so far, a Zope+Python
combination for web applications has to be one of the more powerful
solutions out there!
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