Re: exercise in double number arithmetic

In article <41fb479407861a526f7bf0447b8898a9@www.novabbs.com>,
minforth <minforth@gmx.net> wrote:

The limitiation is within FALOG that works with float64
i.e. 52 significant bits ~ about 16 decimal digits only.
>
A Forth with DFLOAT=float80 (x87) works with 64 signif. bits
i.e. about 21 decimal digits.
>
If this is a problem, the Pascal triangle does not have
such limitations.

For these large numbers you should use the floating point
approximation for factorials.
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