[OS X TeX] TeX request

[George Dorner]

I enjoyed reading this thread since CS students here I teach like to  
(or are required to) do such computations and the more ways to do it,  
the more interesting the problem to them.

I called up my Maple and couldn't get a reading on how fast it  
computed 200!, so I entered tim():=top:2000!:tim()-top; and got 0.001  
sec, while tim():=top:2000!;tim()-top;  actually shows the digits and  
takes 0.004 seconds. This was on a dual processor G4. That's all the  
time I plan to spend on the problem.  8-)


geo


On Jun 24, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Jean-Claude DE SOZA wrote:

> Gerben,
>
> In a text file, enter :
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> class Integer
>   def factorial
>     (1..self).inject(1) { |f, n| f * n }
>   end
> end
> puts 200.factorial
>
> Save it as fact.rb and run it with ./fact.rb or ruby fact.rb
> Jean-Claude DE SOZA
>
> Le 23 juin 05 à 22:24, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I need help with a trick I want to perform. I want to be able to  
>> display all the digits of
>>
>> 2!
>> 10!
>> 200!
>>
>> I need some sort of perl, ruby, bc or other way to produce all the  
>> digits. Then I can use some TeX trickery (maybe from the  
>> diminuendo trick from the showcase, or crescendo) to display them
>>
>> G
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