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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 17:22:13 GMT
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In article <dewar.854542590@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Robert said
>
>"It is the hallmark of large factorials, that they terminate with lots of zeros.
>More interesting yet is that regardless of what radix you convert the factorial
>to, providing the radix is not much larger than the factorialized number,
>the factorial
>will *still* terminate in a lot of zeroes."
>
>I don't see how you find that interesting, it is transparently obvious that
>this is the case if you think about it for a moment ...

Yeah, but Mr. Martin injected the only verifiable FACT into this thread
so far, which I think was his point!

- Bob
