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Alex Martelli
aleax at aleax.it
Thu Jan 24 04:04:22 EST 2002
"Bengt Richter" <bokr at oz.net> wrote in message
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> Well, that's looking for the fastest way to do the same algorithm (unless
> gmpy.fac() does something different) ...
It calls GMP's factorial, and I haven't examined it but I believed the
latter just did N multiplications (each a rather fast one). Skip's
measurements suggest there may be something better going on inside
GMP's factorial, but I don't have GMP's sources right here and now
to double-check...
Alex
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