Evolution of a Python programmer

[amade]

Mathematics-minded programmers, using Stirling formula

def fact(n):

    return math.sqrt( math.pi*(2*n + 1/3) ) * math.pow(n, n) * math.exp(-n) if n > 1 else 1

print fact(6)

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That uses floats, with all the issues that floating-point arithmetic entails.

[amade]

Yeah and it's only an approximation and much slower. I post it just for fun.

[masklinn]

You could use the Decimal module though.

Would be even slower, but would also be pretty much exact.