How to increase the Java stack size?

Question

I asked this question to get to know how to increase the runtime call stack size in the JVM. I\'ve got an answer to this, and I\'ve also got many useful answers and comments

Answer 1

Other posters have pointed out how to increase memory and that you could memoize calls. I'd suggest that for many applications, you can use Stirling's formula to approximate large n! very quickly with almost no memory footprint.

Take a gander at this post, which has some analysis of the function and code:

http://threebrothers.org/brendan/blog/stirlings-approximation-formula-clojure/