I think a programmer should have implemented his own bignum-library once, so welcome here.
You might want to implement or research a library for binary-coded decimal if you're trying to avoid BigInteger. You can accomplish factorial of 90 with BigInteger if you want to use it though.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.