<p>Does .NET come with a class capable of representing extremely large integers, such as 100 factorial?  If not, what are some good third party libraries to accomplish this?</p>

[{'answer_id': 25378, 'author': 'Haacked', 'author_id': 598, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/598', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>.NET has a BigInteger class, but it is internal, unfortunately. However, several places have their own. You can grab an implementation from IronPython, or the one from CodeProject, or from Visual J#. I have to say, I\'ve not tried these myself, so I don\'t know which one is the best.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython" rel="noreferrer">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython</a>\n<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/biginteger.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/biginteger.aspx</a>\n<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163696.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163696.aspx</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 26753, 'author': 'Brian Leahy', 'author_id': 580, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/580', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Microsoft.FSharp.Math.Types.BigInt</p>\n\n<p>It can represent any integer.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 51944, 'author': 'Jason Olson', 'author_id': 5418, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5418', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>.NET 4 has a <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.numerics.biginteger.aspx" rel="noreferrer">BigInteger</a> class</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Represents an arbitrarily large signed integer.</p>\n  \n  <p>The BigInteger type is an immutable type that represents an arbitrarily large integer whose value in theory has no upper or lower bounds. This type differs from the other integral types in the .NET Framework, which have a range indicated by their MinValue and MaxValue properties.</p>\n</blockquote>\n'}, {'answer_id': 98678, 'author': 'Luke Quinane', 'author_id': 18437, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18437', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Mono has a public BigInteger implementation already:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=T:Mono.Math.BigInteger" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=T:Mono.Math.BigInteger</a></p>\n\n<p>You can just grab the Mono.Security assembly to use it; since its a Mono class library it should be MIT licensed too.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1601453, 'author': 'Shiraz Bhaiji', 'author_id': 86611, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86611', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Here is a link the documentation of big integer in framework 4.0</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.numerics.biginteger(VS.100).aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.numerics.biginteger(VS.100).aspx</a></p>\n'}]
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