J Dougherty wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 12:21:41 pm molinar wrote: > >> I am working on a project that requires me to do very large factorial >> evaluations. On R the built in factorial function and the one I created >> both are not able to do factorials over 170. The first gives an error and >> mine return Inf. >> >> Is there a way to have R do these larger calculations (the calculator in >> accessories can do 10000 factorial and Maple can do even larger) >> > > If you need an open source arbitrary precision calculator, you might want to > look at Octave which is OS and works similarly to Mathematica - up to a > point > books for Mathematica will be a significant help with Octave. >
octave works similarly to *matlab* (to the point some call it a 'matlab clone'). it's not so close to mathematica. vQ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
