[Scilab-users] [SEP] factorial() extension on [171, 10^14]

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 14/04/2018 à 15:44, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> While fixing the bug 7562 about a bad memory usage by factorial(),
>
> i was wondering about the poor factorial() result, since currently
> it can process only integers in [0, 170] before saturating and 
> returning %inf.
>
> This Scilab Enhancement Proposed (SEP) aims to extend factorial()
> to all integers in [0, 10^4].
>

The proposed extension goes up to n=10^14 (not 10^4)

Samuel