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Note Submitter: Nitrogen ---- The comment below is correct.. Also, for this factorial business.. I believe it's pretty much the fastest way to making factorials. Here's some benchmarkings with the provided example code.. 1M! in about 40 minutes. 5M! in about 15 hours, 30 minutes. 10M! in about 2 days, 7 hours. Note: (n)M! = n millionth factorial.. computed on a 2.5GHz x64 processor. And unfortunately, the GMP functions aren't multithreaded. Here's some speed comparisons for making factorials: gmp_fact(): 0.01114893 secs fact() manpage example code (in document above): 0.08637404 secs BC Math bcmul(): 7.85198307 secs gmp_fact will be the fastest way to produce nice lengthy factorials.. it produced 100,000! in exactly 10 seconds.. but obviously as the numbers get bigger, the slower it'll become. I hope this information provides nice insight to these functions.