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cos(200!)

1 · John Cook · Aug. 7, 2026, 1:50 p.m.

Computing Python programming techniques Large Numbers Computation

Summary

This post discusses the limitations of Python's math library in calculating the cosine of extremely large numbers, specifically using the example of 200!. It serves as a follow-up to a previous discussion on logarithmic calculations in Python.

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