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From: simpson@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Simpson David Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Factorials in J
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.040541.28914@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 91 04:05:41 GMT
Reply-To: simpson@aplcen (Simpson David Grant)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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Can someone explain what is happening when I try to calculate
factorials in the following J session?  I do this right after
starting up J (version 3):

   !9
362880
   !174
1.7=e309
   !9
1

All following attempts to calculate factorials also produce 1.
What gives?

                                 David Simpson