Re: Help to create a program to calculqte n!
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:42:14AM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote:
> Alicja Pawlowska writes:
>
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > Please help me to write the following program:
> >
> > Q: Write a program to count (correct to 1 decimals) the n! of natural
> > number series between 0 and 1000 with user input menu.
factorial is only defined on the set of positive integers, so the 1 decimal
place think is pointless. Maybe you would be interested in the arbitrary
precision mathematical programming language implemented by bc. There is
even an example factorial function in the man page:
yeti:~/src/c/cs3120/assign4$ bc -l
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type warranty'.
define f (x) {
if (x <= 1) return (1);
return (f(x-1) * x);
}
f(1000)
40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071463254379991042993\
85123986290205920442084869694048004799886101971960586316668729948085\
58901323829669944590997424504087073759918823627727188732519779505950\
99527612087497546249704360141827809464649629105639388743788648733711\
91810458257836478499770124766328898359557354325131853239584630755574\
09114262417474349347553428646576611667797396668820291207379143853719\
58824980812686783837455973174613608537953452422158659320192809087829\
73084313928444032812315586110369768013573042161687476096758713483120\
25478589320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151027341827977\
70478463586817016436502415369139828126481021309276124489635992870511\
49649754199093422215668325720808213331861168115536158365469840467089\
75602900950537616475847728421889679646244945160765353408198901385442\
48798495995331910172335555660213945039973628075013783761530712776192\
68490343526252000158885351473316117021039681759215109077880193931781\
14194545257223865541461062892187960223838971476088506276862967146674\
69756291123408243920816015378088989396451826324367161676217916890977\
99119037540312746222899880051954444142820121873617459926429565817466\
28302955570299024324153181617210465832036786906117260158783520751516\
28422554026517048330422614397428693306169089796848259012545832716822\
64580665267699586526822728070757813918581788896522081643483448259932\
66043367660176999612831860788386150279465955131156552036093988180612\
13855860030143569452722420634463179746059468257310379008402443243846\
56572450144028218852524709351906209290231364932734975655139587205596\
54228749774011413346962715422845862377387538230483865688976461927383\
81490014076731044664025989949022222176590433990188601856652648506179\
97023561938970178600408118897299183110211712298459016419210688843871\
21855646124960798722908519296819372388642614839657382291123125024186\
64935314397013742853192664987533721894069428143411852015801412334482\
80150513996942901534830776445690990731524332782882698646027898643211\
39083506217095002597389863554277196742822248757586765752344220207573\
63056949882508796892816275384886339690995982628095612145099487170124\
45164612603790293091208890869420285106401821543994571568059418727489\
98094254742173582401063677404595741785160829230135358081840096996372\
52423056085590370062427124341690900415369010593398383577793941097002\
77534720000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This is kind of big, so integer arithmetic is not going to cut it, unless
you use more than 8500 bit wide integers!
Happy hacking :)
--
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Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)
"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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