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Author ncoghlan
Recipients ncoghlan
Date 2014-02-07.10:54:28
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I believe this is mostly a curiousity (since actually calculating a factorial this big would take an interminable amount of time), but math.factorial can be provoked into throwing OverflowError by a large enough input:

>>> math.factorial(10**19)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

>>> math.factorial(1e19)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long
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