On Mar 7, 2010, at 7:15 AM, mhampton wrote:
One clue is that factorial(171) is too big to fit as a long int in
python. This is somehow handled better by the pre-parsing I guess.
This is exactly what's happening. The command line and .sage files are
preparsed, so one has
sage: preparse("ln
Try wrapping 171 with Integer and int, and 1.0 with float and RR in various
combinations. My guess is that Python's treating 1.0 as a float.
David
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:15 AM, mhampton wrote:
> One clue is that factorial(171) is too big to fit as a long int in
> python. This is somehow han
One clue is that factorial(171) is too big to fit as a long int in
python. This is somehow handled better by the pre-parsing I guess.
-Marshall
On Mar 7, 6:25 am, Jan Groenewald wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:14:41AM -0800, jyr wrote:
> > sage: print ln(factorial(171)*1.0)
> > 711.7
