New submission from Nick Coghlan: I believe this is mostly a curiousity (since actually calculating a factorial this big would take an interminable amount of time), but math.factorial can be provoked into throwing OverflowError by a large enough input:
>>> math.factorial(10**19) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long >>> math.factorial(1e19) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long ---------- messages: 210448 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: math.factorial may throw OverflowError _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20539> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
