Thanks for your help. After looking at your first response I thought that It might be possible to combine the two sets of calculations and sum them but as it turns out the factorial of any number > 169 results in an overflow error so it seems doing the factorials of numbers <= 169 and then those > 169 wouldn't work.
I will use the information you provided in your earlier post and see if that works.
Again, I really appreciate your taking the time to help.
Best regards
Steve
On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 01:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Type Operators *: range error (overflow)
Another possibility aside from recursion overflow (the more obvious one - I'm missing the forrest for the trees here) is that the number is just too big for whatever datatype MetaCard is using to represent numbers. I don't know how you get around this one though, short of using a CPS'd function as an XCMD. There *might* be a way to split the number up into smaller units, and then combine them at the end in some way, but I have no idea how - I'm thinking of the "Saturn" BCD architecture used by some calculators, and the recursive fast-multiply algorithm for multiplying truly huge numbers (hundreds or thousands of digits each..)
Jim
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