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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, ncoghlan
Date 2014-02-07.11:00:10
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What behaviour would you suggest instead?

Apart from the time, the result would have over 10**20 digits, so would need exabytes of memory to represent.

>>> from math import lgamma, log
>>> lgamma(1e19) / log(10)
1.8565705518096748e+20
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