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at January 13, 2008 15:04 by darkphotn
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(defun factorial(x)
   (cond ((zerop x) 1)
         ('T (* x (factorial (1- x)))) ))

(factorial 1000)
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Large factorials are easy to do in LISP, although a number above (2000!) may crash it.  I designed this because of an online post from a mathematician talking about the number 1000! .  Code like this is difficult to write in C-like languages, but a snap in LISP, as the following code demonstrates.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Large Factorials in LISP

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Lisp