On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, masmullin [ at ] hush [ dot ] com wrote: > http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/limits/numeric_limits/ > std::numeric_limits<unsigned long long int>::max() > > hitting gnome-calc, a 64bit integral should be able to hold 20! as > 2^64 > 20!. However, this gcc doc might help if my usage of math > skills are lacking > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fint128.html amusing followup ... i chatted with the guy yesterday afternoon who was looking at the results of the online assessment and, toward the end of the chat, i asked him what the solution was, since i simply had no idea. he affirmed that my solution was perfectly correct up to the limit that could be stored in a long long, but he also didn't know how the program should have been coded to handle values above that. so, in the end, i still have no idea. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org