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

Also, both windows and linux have limits on the maximum amount of memory an image can occupy As I recall on linux it is half a gigabyte.

The real question is why these operations aren't being done lazily ;)