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  1. Newsgroups: comp.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!taco!tmjones
  3. From: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
  4. Subject: Question
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.204439.15769@ncsu.edu>
  6. Originator: tmjones@c00538-106ps.eos.ncsu.edu
  7. Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
  8. Reply-To: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
  9. Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
  10. References: <ALEXEEV.93Jan25142041@solitude.math.utah.edu> <1993Jan26.211823.10586@spider.research.ptt.nl>
  11. Distribution: comp
  12. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:44:39 GMT
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  16. I have a problem.  I need to figure up an algorithm to calculate large
  17. factorials.  The largest factorial I'll need is 90!  I see how I can store
  18. the numbers in arrays of bits, but I have no idea how to calculate it.
  19. Can anyone help me. 
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  22. Tommie Miles Jones                    North Carolina State University
  23.                                       Computer Science
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