>>Now WHERE do I find that? I found that the Double would handle numbers large enough, but couldn't find the precision anywhere.
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>>Thanks,
>>Barbara
>>>Double has 15 digits precision. That's not enough for quadrillions (10^15).
>>>
>
>What do you count in quadrillions anyway?
>:)

Sheep? That's what I'd call a real hard insomnia case :)

BTW, I remember having seen a routine which used numbers extended to an arbitrary number of digits. I've seen it do a factorial of 94 or 123; it was limited by available memory only, and worked like a flash on a 286. Language? Lisp.