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Permutations & Combinations for large inputs
05-27-2015, 12:03 PM
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RE: Permutations & Combinations for large inputs
(05-26-2015 05:14 PM)Dieter Wrote:  Since the program calculates n!/(n–r)! first (which always is an integer) the results should be exact here.
Only for n<16 I'm afraid.
eg. PERM(16,5) = 16!/(11!) = 524160.0001. There's 110 cases like this for n<70.
All of them can be corrected with 0.1 + INT.
Worst case is PERM(64,5)=

Then there are a few cases with a result of 10 significa

41CV†,42S,48GX,49G,DM42,DM41X,17BII,15CE,DM15L,12C,16CE
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RE: Permutations & Combinations for large inputs - Werner - 05-27-2015 12:03 PM



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