On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Steve Bennett wrote:
> (PS: if anyone knows of a way of estimating the value of a factorial,
> I'd also appreciate that).
Did anyone mention stirling's approximation?
N! ~= sqrt(2 pi N) (N/e)^N
By taking the log of this, you will find your number to be
about 512,390 digits long.
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