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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients NeilGirdhar, belopolsky, ethan.furman, ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, vstinner
Date 2015-03-06.08:22:23
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> I'm not sure that the C implementation of factorial() is much faster

The inner loop (see the for loop in factorial_partial_product) operates on C unsigned longs, so I'd be surprised if a Python implementation were competitive.  But it would be interesting to see timings.
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