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title: "Representing Large Computation"
type: concept
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhrepresenting_large_computation/
confidence: high
status: active
---

Instead of calculating:
\begin{equation} \qty( \frac{52! -1}{52!} ) \end{equation}
We calculate the log of it because then you are able to write:
\begin{equation} \log \qty( \frac{52! -1}{52!} ) = \log (52! - 1) - \log(52!) \end{equation}
which won&rsquo;t be rounded to \(0\).
