Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/13/05 17:07

--CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes:
> You can try DECIMAL(n), but this is not what SQL ws meant to do. Can
> you get Mathematica or Maple or MathLab instead?

decimal is not going to help here. I ran 170! on my pocketcalculator, and it
said something about E306.

But I agree that SQL Server is not really the best place for this
exercise.


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