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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:30:08 -0500
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 03/06/2015 11:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>
> On Friday 06 March 2015 06:22:34 Dave Angel wrote:

>>
>> Sorry, but 50! is not even close to 50**50.  The latter is 85 digits
>> as you say, but 50! is "only" 64.
>>
>>
>> 30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000L
>
> What utility output that as an L ?
>

Python 2.7 interpreter, after calculating factorial with the obvious 
loop.  Basically, it's using repr() on the expression, so it flags the 
integer as a long, rather than an int.

I debated not including it, but this way I was sure of getting the right 
number of zeroes.  My copy/paste is notorious for missing a character or 
two at each end.

-- 
DaveA