Python for philosophers

[88888 Dihedral]

Chris Angelico於 2013年5月19日星期日UTC+8上午8時04分45秒寫道：
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:56 AM, 88888 Dihedral
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> <dihedral88888 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey, ChisA, are you delibrately to write a recursive version
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> > to demonstrate the stack depth problem in Python?
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> >
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> > def fact(n):
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> >    ret=1
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> >    if n>1: # integer checking is not used but can be added
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> >       for x in xrange(n): ret*=x
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> >    #print ret # debugging only for long integers
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> >    return ret
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> >
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> > In a 32 or 64 bit system, this non-recursive verssion
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> > will be limited by the heap space not by the stack limit.
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> And just when we're sure Dihedral's a bot, a post like this comes through.
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> Dihedral, are you intelligent? I'm still in two minds about this...
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> which may be why you so often appear to have no minds. I dunno.
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> Mathematics somewhere I fancy.
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> 
> ChrisA

I am too lazy to write a factorial computations with primes
here.