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1. pagade · 1789569022 · focus · HN ↗

   Reminds me of: Professor asked us to find the biggest factorial using C programming language. And then using LISP. You can imagine our surprise.

   1. smcin · 1789596889 · focus · HN ↗

      I think you mean "using base C without any arbitrary-precision library (e.g. GMP)" . All that illustrates is that Lisp has built-in support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, whereas C doesn't. Otherwise, how is this surprising, and what is the reason for the performance difference?

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