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[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Aren’t all factorials absolute factorials?

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 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

[-] driving_crooner 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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)

[-] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 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@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

How are you going to flip the signs though?

[-] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago

oop there was a real stupid typo where I forgot the minus sign lmao

it's fixed now

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

We did it Lemmy!

Where’s our Nobel prize.

[-] driving_crooner 8 points 11 hours ago

There's no Nobel price for mathematics, but I can accept the one for peace instead.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I heard biology branches out.

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