Sure. BigInteger.doubleValue() casts to infinity if the value is too
large to be represented:
user (double (fact 1000))
Infinity
You could try this using BigDecimals instead of doubles:
user (+ 0.5M (fact 1000))
-Per
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Miki miki.teb...@gmail.com wrote:
If the following intentional?
user= (defn fact [n] (reduce * 1 (range 1 (inc n
#'user/fact
user= (fact 1000)
402387260077093773543702433923003985719374864210714632543799910...
user= (+ 0.5 (fact 1000))
Infinity
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