Timeline for How to Calculate Factorial when Overflow/Underflow occurs
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| Apr 5, 2020 at 9:44 | comment | added | PiE | Yes. You had a great answer. Thank you. | |
| Apr 5, 2020 at 8:59 | comment | added | Eric Towers | @PiE : Twice you write the sum is $1$ in your question, unconditionally on $k$. I've also more thoroughly answered your question and explained why you were having numerical precision trouble. | |
| Apr 5, 2020 at 8:55 | comment | added | PiE | The series is the ss probabilities of an M/D/1 queue so they should sum to 1 for $k \rightarrow \infty$. | |
| Apr 5, 2020 at 3:03 | history | answered | Eric Towers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |