RE: [ILUG] impressive...

From: John_White at domain dell.com
Date: Thu 28 Oct 1999 - 15:00:53 IST

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as easy as it would be to write one that gets the factorial of 5 :)
but you'd need a mad data type to store the result in . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: John P . Looney [mailto:valen at domain tuatha.org]
Sent: 28 October 1999 14:46
To: Irish LUG list
Subject: [ILUG] impressive...

 Check this out.

 Into umb-scheme, type:

 (define (factorial number)(if (= number 0) 1 (* number (factorial (-
number 1)))))

 then:

 (factorial 5500)

 How easy would it be to write a tcl, C or C++ function to get the
factorial of 5500 ? Scheme rocks!

Kate

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