$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib') require 'distribution' require 'bench_press' extend BenchPress name 'aprox vs exact factorization method' author 'Claudio Bustos' date '2011-01-27' summary " Factorization requires a lot of processing, so approximation method could be required. But for greats value, bigdecimal are required and things start to get harder. * Approximation (fast_factorial): Luschny f.3 * Exact (factorial): Luschny Swing Prime " reps 10 # number of repetitions x = 200 measure "Math.factorial(#{x})" do Math.factorial(x) end measure "Math.fast_factorial(#{x})" do Math.fast_factorial(x) end