On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar abr 26 12:58:19 -0300 2011:
>>
>> > Wow, I am so glad someone documented this. I often do factorial(4000)
>> > which generates 12673 digits when teaching classes, and it bugged me
>> > that we documented the limit as 1000 digits.
>>
>> I keep wondering why you want to know factorial(4000) so often.
>
> It is just to impress folks, and it is impressive. An instant
> screenful of digits is pretty cool.
If you are into impressing people with big numbers (or maybe doing
something useful with them too) you may take a look at
http://pgmp.projects.postgresql.org/
-- Daniele