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Ravenwater
Ravenwater commented Jan 1, 2021

in the Sterling approximation of factorial(n), we use an oracle based on the sw::universal::decimal type, which is an adaptive data type, to generate a reference value. However, the direct approximation of the factorial through a native floating point type yields different approximations.

factorial(40) calculated with double and decimal oracle rounded to double
815915283247897734345611269

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