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Does .NET come with a class capable of representing extremely large integers, such as 100 factorial? If not, what are some good third party libraries to accomplish this?
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You need to use a large number class that uses some basic math principals to split these operations up. This implementation of a C# BigInteger library on CodePoject seems to be the most promising. The article has some good explanations of how operations with massive numbers work, as well. Show activity on this post.
Description. A BigInt value, also sometimes just called a BigInt, is a bigint primitive, created by appending n to the end of an integer literal, or by calling the BigInt() function (without the new operator) and giving it an integer value or string value.
The BigInteger type is an immutable type that represents an arbitrarily large integer whose value in theory has no upper or lower bounds. The members of the BigInteger type closely parallel those of other integral types (the Byte, Int16, Int32, Int64, SByte, UInt16, UInt32, and UInt64 types).
In C#, all numeric data types store limited range of values. For example, Int32 data type can store integers from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. The long (Int64) type can store integers from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, and unsigned long has the limit of 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.
.NET 4 has a BigInteger class
Represents an arbitrarily large signed integer.
The BigInteger type is an immutable type that represents an arbitrarily large integer whose value in theory has no upper or lower bounds. This type differs from the other integral types in the .NET Framework, which have a range indicated by their MinValue and MaxValue properties.
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