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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
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Subject: Re: factorial...
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Date: 6 Feb 91 23:59:22 GMT
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In article <1991Feb06.072529.21092@convex.com> bobm@convex.com (Bob Miller) writes:
 > I spent a little time optimizing and vectorizing, and for sufficiently
 > large numbers, I can multiply a decimal digit-pair every 15
 > picoseconds (!).  "Sufficiently large" means > 1e36000.
 > 
Let me guess, Schoenhage?, Fourier transform?
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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