[Tutor] how to handle big numbers

[Robert Sjoblom]

> There are other approaches that may bear looking at, like the SciPy library.
>  But first we'd need to know just what you need with this factorial.

Wouldn't a prime swing implementation be the absolutely fastest?
Something like this:
http://en.literateprograms.org/Special:Downloadcode/Factorials_with_prime_factorization_%28Python%29

(Well, excepting actually storing prime numbers in a list which would
be much, much faster)

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best regards,
Robert S.