Quote Originally Posted by danbaron View Post
For 100!, the function from, "Numerical Recipes in C", is only correct for 9 digits, so the Lanczos implementation beats it.
Dan, both are Lanczos approximations, the one I posted uses more terms, but there's something wrong with thinBasic,
it's supposed to use extended precision in it's calculations but
Val("1e+4932")
gives
1.7014118346046923E+38