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  Re: The way to an ideal array is a kick in the face  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Sep 2018 22:23:09
Message: <5bac3f0d$1@news.povray.org>
Am 26.09.2018 um 23:52 schrieb BGimeno:

> I ended up giving with a code that besides being wrong kicked my Ubuntu
> in the face, (with pov under Wine it took a while to recover, but it
> comes out.) Be careful not to have anything important open if you try
> it, the lines that generate the error are in comment lines on purpose I
> do not ask for a solution and I do not think that it is exactly a
> mistake of the program, but I leave it there as a curiosity.

Fun fact: 32-bit versions of POV-Ray may be immune to the scene. I've
just seen "bad allocation", and that's it.

Maybe that's because you'd need 20 GiB (or 40 GiB on a 64-bit machine)
of memory for that empty array alone.


> pd. Factorial(n) code isn't mine, I've found it today, and very useful.

Factorial's a bitch. The numbers tend to explode in your face.


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