| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Gianni Ciolli <gianni(dot)ciolli(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: maximum digits for NUMERIC |
| Date: | 2011-04-27 03:47:52 |
| Message-ID: | 201104270347.p3R3lqI02183@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar abr 26 12:58:19 -0300 2011:
>
> > Wow, I am so glad someone documented this. I often do factorial(4000)
> > which generates 12673 digits when teaching classes, and it bugged me
> > that we documented the limit as 1000 digits.
>
> I keep wondering why you want to know factorial(4000) so often.
It is just to impress folks, and it is impressive. An instant
screenful of digits is pretty cool.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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