[Tutor] puzzled again by decimal module

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Sat Aug 19 02:20:34 CEST 2006


At 04:50 PM 8/18/2006, Christian Tschabuschnig wrote:
> >> 
> 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000
> >>> Still not exactly correct! I'm bewildered.
> >>>
> >> The results look the same to me
> >> why do you think they're not correct?
> >> what is the result supposed to be?
> >
> > An integer not ending in 26 zeroes?
>
>The result is correct. I checked it with Mathematica.

<BLUSH> Yes, I'm sure you are. I'd forgotten about all those factors 
of 100! that end in zero (10, 20, 30, ..., 100).

Thanks to all.

Dick





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