i've been working on a problem in school and i cant seem to find a solution
     product = 1;
   for (int x = 1000000; x >=1; x --)
     {
        product = product * x;
     }
how can i declare a variable product capable of holding a 1000000! value? int, float, double, doesn't seem to solve the problem.

newbie

newbie

Indeed.
You need the BigInteger class newbie!
You can read about it in the SDK API docs in the package called math
Not java.lang.Math but java.math.BigInteger

So for a factorial the method declaration could be:

public static java.math.BigInteger factorial(int number)
{
java.math.BigInteger fact = java.math.BigInteger.ONE;

if(number < 0)
    return null;

for(int i=1; i<=number; i++)
{
    java.math.BigInteger newFactor = new java.math.BigInteger(
                                         Integer.toString(i));
    fact = fact.multiply(newFactor);
}
return fact;
}

There is a BigInteger.toString() that you can use to
System.out.println() your BigInteger.

This should work I guess,
of course you can import java.math in your class
then you can skip the java.math prefix of BigInteger

OK?
Franz