Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results

[John Cowan]

Steve Graham scripsit:

> Thanks, Mario.  Worked like a charm.  Why is that not part of the base
> package?

Licensing.  The numbers egg has to be GPL, because it depends on the GMP
(GNU Multi-precision Library) which is GPL.  The overall license for
Chicken, however, is BSD.  There are alternatives to the GMP, but it is
the gold standard: fast, accurate, space-conserving.

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