BN for very large numbers ? e.g. 5000!

[MAZZARELLA, RICHARD A [PHR/1005]]

I would like to use BN functions in Perl to calculate very large numbers but
I seem to be limited to 170! or ~7e306. Anything larger than this results in
"inf" although I can use the BigInt module to calculate 170! (albeit about
1100x slower) as well as 5000!. Is there a way to extend the allocation for
BIGNUM so that I can calculate larger numbers? Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Rich
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