working with large numbers -- sql server (alternate)

sql server (alternate) : working with large numbers

julry NO[at]SPAM rapidigm-dot-com.no-spam.invalid
11/13/2005 2:10:02 AM

I need to compute factorials, but I hit a limit around 170!. Is ther
anyway to handle numbers larger than the float data type can handle?
Thanks

--CELKO--
11/13/2005 5:47:30 AM

You can try DECIMAL(n), but this is not what SQL ws meant to do. Can
you get Mathematica or Maple or MathLab instead?

1492a2001 NO[at]SPAM terra.es
11/13/2005 9:33:17 AM

With SQL 2005 you can define true new types using .NET. This is a
sample of a good use of the CLR inside SQL Server.

Erland Sommarskog
11/13/2005 3:07:58 PM

--CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes:
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decimal is not going to help here. I ran 170! on my pocketcalculator, and it
said something about E306.

But I agree that SQL Server is not really the best place for this
exercise.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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