Why is Erlang crashing on large sequences?

Question

I have just started learning Erlang and am trying out some Project Euler problems to get started. However, I seem to be able to do any operations on large sequences without cra

Answer 1

Possibly a noob answer (I'm a Java dev), but the JVM artificially limits the amount of memory to help detect memory leaks more easily. Perhaps erlang has similar restrictions in place?