> There are other approaches that may bear looking at, like the SciPy library. > But first we'd need to know just what you need with this factorial.
Wouldn't a prime swing implementation be the absolutely fastest? Something like this: http://en.literateprograms.org/Special:Downloadcode/Factorials_with_prime_factorization_%28Python%29 (Well, excepting actually storing prime numbers in a list which would be much, much faster) -- best regards, Robert S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor