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Re: Large Numbers [message #64985 is a reply to message #64984]

Fri, 06 February 2009 18:57

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <MPG.23f671b522eba5ef98a5f6@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Now, of course, the formula I was using has a large
> factorial number divided by another large factorial
> number, so the *actual* number I wanted to use in the
> calculation is not that big. But it begs the question:
> what strategy do computer scientists use to deal with
> one very, very big number divided by another very, very
> big number?

If you are dividing them, you don't really want to use
integers, do you? That's what floats (and doubles) are for.

Ken Bowman

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[Message index]

		Re: Large Numbers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 February 2009 20:13
		Re: Large Numbers By: pgrigis on Fri, 06 February 2009 20:06
		Re: Large Numbers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 February 2009 19:59
		Re: Large Numbers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 February 2009 19:53
		Re: Large Numbers By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 06 February 2009 18:57
		Re: Large Numbers By: pgrigis on Fri, 06 February 2009 17:14
		Re: Large Numbers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 February 2009 16:54
		Re: Large Numbers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 February 2009 16:50
		Re: Large Numbers By: Chris[6] on Fri, 06 February 2009 16:49
		Re: Large Numbers By: pgrigis on Fri, 06 February 2009 15:35
		Re: Large Numbers By: Jeremy Bailin on Mon, 09 February 2009 20:28
		Re: Large Numbers By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 10 February 2009 09:28

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