Computation with huge numbers: BigInt, BigFloat etc

[stevengj]

@harven

Unfortunately, trying to convert this value to Float64 using the float function gives an error.

julia> float(binomial(big(100),50) // big(2)^100)
Error showing value of type BigFloat:
ERROR: AssertionError: length(int) == 1
[...]

I can’t reproduce your problem:

julia> float(binomial(big(100),50) // big(2)^100)
7.95892373871787614981270502421704614029315404247333213573478705171737601631321e-02

Can you try it in a fresh Julia session?