Hi Steve, On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 07:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Steve Graham <jsgraha...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In running (factorial 50) > > (define (factorial n) (if (< n 2) 1 (* n (factorial (- n 1))))) > > I found that Chicken Scheme's result differed from Petite Chez, Kawa and > Gambit. The former gave > > 3.04140932017134e+064 > > and the latter 3 gave > > 30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000 > > Why the difference? It seems that you are not using the numbers egg (http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/numbers). The full numeric tower support is provided as an extension. Just $ chicken-install numbers csi> (use numbers) csi> (define (factorial n) (if (< n 2) 1 (* n (factorial (- n 1))))) csi> (factorial 50) 30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000 Best wishes. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
