kenanybig-factorial
Like factorial but for big numbers. Inspired by a blog post by Reginald Braithwaite (@raganwald).
Example
If you want to find the factorial of an integer less than 171, then you don't need this module. Otherwise, you do need it:
var factorial = require('factorial');
factorial(170);
// => 7.257415615307994e+306
factorial(171);
// => Infinity
factorial(32768);
// => RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceededThe Infinity problem is a result of JavaScript's limit on how big numbers can
be. This module solves this problem by using
big-integer.
The RangeError is a problem with how the factorial is calculated. The
recursion used goes so deep that it exceeds the limit that Node.js has. As
described in Reginald's blog post, this problem is solved by using trampolines.
Installation
$ npm install big-factorialAPI
var bigFactorial = require('big-factorial');bigFactorial(value)
Returns the factorial of value as a bigInt, where value is either a
Number or a String.