• @jaybone
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    38 hours ago

    Aren’t all factorials absolute factorials?

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      It’s the same calculation but you also take a shot of vodka for all integers less than n but greater than 0

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      7 hours ago

      Introducing, the signed factorial: ¡n! = n × -(n-1) × (n-2) x -(n-3) x … x (-1)^(n-2)(2) ×(-1)^(n-1)(1)

      • @[email protected]
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        3 hours ago

        I’d prefer an alternative definition that starts with the base case ¡0! = 1, and then for n > 0 we define ¡n! = n * -¡(n-1)!

        • @jaybone
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          23 hours ago

          How are you going to flip the signs though?

      • @jaybone
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        47 hours ago

        We did it Lemmy!

        Where’s our Nobel prize.

          • @Randelung
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            22 hours ago

            I heard biology branches out.