It's not the best algorithm for computing factorials though. A better strategy is to pair small and large factors together in order to avoid bignum computations

It's not the best algorithm for computing factorials though. A better strategy is to pair small and large factors together in order to avoid bignum computations (or to reduce the size og bignum computations). https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/factorial.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/factorial.p... Also: It's more fun to use the name `fact` in benchmarks...