[seqfan] Re: Fwd: Re: Factorials (A000142) "compressed" through the int data type

[Joseph Myers]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Hugo Pfoertner wrote:

> It would take quite a while until the 16 byte floats would overflow, but if
> implemented as defined in the standard also there Infinity would appear.

Concretely, 1755! overflows for IEEE binary128 (as you noted, 35! 
overflows for IEEE binary32 and 171! overflows for IEEE binary64).

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm at polyomino.org.uk