I Told You, the Math Factor

I tried to explain that I am lousy with math, but it seemed like my head was on straight enough. However the worst of all possible nightmarishly ironic situations has occurred: my math describing how bad my math is has turned out to be incorrect. So, as a formal retraction to my claim that my solution to Project Euler #9 goes through !3000 iterations to produce it's results, I must announce that it does not. My buddy Carl tipped me off to the fact, of which I am logically aware, but chose to ignore since the thrill of stupidly large numbers was at stake, that !3000 is a number larger than the count of atoms in the universe, or grains of sand on all the World's beaches. The correct total of iterations for this particular program is more sensible: 1,000,000,000. Which I guess is large enough, but it sure aint no !3000. However, I do trust that my skills are slowly getting less bad. It has been at least seven years since I have done any real and consistent crunching of numbers (I went to Art School remember), and it is a disappointment, but no surprise that is taking me some time to get back into the swing of things.