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Author	alanmcintyre
Recipients	alanmcintyre, dtorp, mark.dickinson
Date	2008-02-18.17:50:50
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Message-id	<1203357052.04.0.0404879270189.issue2138@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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>Except that hypot is not a one-liner, if you want to get edge cases right. Ah, true; thanks for pointing that out. Should there be some upper limit on the argument math.factorial would take? At the moment I can't think of any reason for picking a given limit, except perhaps execution time. (10**4)! can be done in about 1 second on my old & slow laptop; are there realistic use cases for numbers much bigger than that?

>Except that hypot is not a one-liner, if you want to get edge cases
right. 

Ah, true; thanks for pointing that out.

Should there be some upper limit on the argument math.factorial would
take?  At the moment I can't think of any reason for picking a given
limit, except perhaps execution time.  (10**4)! can be done in about 1
second on my old & slow laptop; are there realistic use cases for
numbers much bigger than that?

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2008-02-18 17:50:52	alanmcintyre	set	spambayes_score: 0.0365604 -> 0.036560364 recipients: + alanmcintyre, mark.dickinson, dtorp
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