Message105563
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> The main value in setting a theoretically justified limit is that
> overflow exception can carry a meaningful message, e.g. "factorial
> result would have too many digits", rather than an unhelpful "Python
> int too large to convert to C long".
I'm pretty sure this is an orthogonal issue to speeding up
math.factorial. If you want to improve the error and/or impose a
tighter maximum limit on n, would you mind opening it as a separate
issue?
I like extra checks and I like speed, but I can't think about adding
extra checks and a speed patch at the same time. ;-) |
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2010-05-12 01:00:44 | stutzbach | set | recipients:
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2010-05-12 01:00:42 | stutzbach | link | issue8692 messages |
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