"Mir Nazim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now I ahave a lits with 1060 lists in it. Now comes the hard part.
> How many possible distinct ways are there to arrange 1060 elements
> taken 96 at a time
>
> 1060! / (1060 - 96)!
More than you want to think about:
import math
def logf(n):
"""return base-10 logarithm of (n factorial)"""
f = 0.0
for x in xrange(1,n+1):
f += math.log(x, 10)
return f
print logf(1060) - logf(1060 - 96)
Of course there are other ways you can calculate it, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirlings_approximation
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