On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:23 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
If you can get me a program to run it,
<<http://store.wolfram.com/catalog/>>
US$900! (Won't bother trying to calculate that.) Ouch! I hadn't realized Mathematica was that significantly priced.
Humm. Humm. Googlicious ... OK, here's an interesting package called HartMath, which appears to do symbolic calculations, is Java based (!) and is free:
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=5083&package_id=9297>
I DLed the .jar, the first on the list, 0.8pre2. And when I entered 900! and clicked the "Symbolic evaluation" button I got a damn big number,
675268022096458415838790613618008142242694278695893843121982687036850916431804 169691324469526983037942260103705786729085931983476998869285919065010315876518 469767596811126095247870938480044286361868933952727844506303540802432176466580 246966590659517937572235202292355775486538336811021709738937460546491264159091 431501728607211566858106557592300114501329921764549832275386963401126104470290 023370048878772663877045860772935854331516125188001477644611826808228670927866 949828318386418009974998193392065794153256497484862652339189110871145924408965 940626759142949258167198621783746792720926375247869390362900359242717822537380 598869339234478777695830030167053633390314130691558375185247610783420526354756 321131696187745492757014801069333629900037325893705935573252994347344592958667 289887407941746543914799260008488466867087297367132072852037127322012724108308 369130526353650828887251716360815871516034682911067546403982321466736273708959 340907778288275495542324361904648279986839271792460299194432510264644523379395 991985282978285911226899606203612382483131580716433958484050472614126800398777 337618498744473238679117126300231717459682784657805585680670350138852750802921 373604918751649477244642216935337550353000653500651374908320395233829637470261 856530503318323809918448425607509235437751885820964874769502544183651989996746 844172862654427866515944047816229469018791663829307141969082274601330276058178 648773777121931421376254303537184482693907326157766452831988286029176802240410 889938926105068021959172478389001069106980570303791905710576058493231133086344 520081798811656164497676483541612250669679612976096987427379233893916152074411 523193928456876733118992470853277034218629728716444954095722599855632154714820 833256532317771132713265799703107556049739697089494773742549744802946524270224 367053801840640088534572145185152709855631954129931452740576886344488124494458 006176311627682431256064248447093720221499084635722549126549077634457585439809 991491229981043789656267818986552214432636014051520731997065850802887350402054 173712772530962432000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000, perhaps?
which was much more satisfying than the infinity symbol I got when I clicked "Numeric evaluation".
This might show more promise for calculating 5,565,709! than a basic Java hack.
Oh, I could do it the same way I did the others. The only question is how long it would take to run.
-- Ronn! :)
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