From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-04-17T20:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: factorial in ruby

"Trans" <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 16, 1:56 pm, "Jason Roelofs" <jameskil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No and most likely not.
>
> Why not? Seems to me factorial is a pretty basic/common math function.
> It would be nice if written in C for speed.

Good point for other reasons: note that there are vastly more efficient
implementations for factorials n! with big (say, >1000) n.

I'm not sure if these are needed often, tho.

> T.
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