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  2. Falling and rising factorials - Wikipedia

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    The rising factorial is also integral to the definition of the hypergeometric function: The hypergeometric function is defined for | | < by the power series (,;;) = = () ()! provided that ,,, …. Note, however, that the hypergeometric function literature typically uses the notation ( a ) n {\displaystyle (a)_{n}} for rising factorials.

  3. Factorial - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative integer , denoted by , is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to . The factorial of also equals the product of with the next smaller factorial: For example, The value of 0! is 1, according to the convention for an empty product. [1]

  4. Legendre's formula - Wikipedia

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    Legendre's formula. In mathematics, Legendre's formula gives an expression for the exponent of the largest power of a prime p that divides the factorial n!. It is named after Adrien-Marie Legendre. It is also sometimes known as de Polignac's formula, after Alphonse de Polignac.

  5. Stirling's approximation - Wikipedia

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    Roughly speaking, the simplest version of Stirling's formula can be quickly obtained by approximating the sum with an integral: The full formula, together with precise estimates of its error, can be derived as follows. Instead of approximating , one considers its natural logarithm, as this is a slowly varying function:

  6. Multiplicative partitions of factorials - Wikipedia

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    Multiplicative partitions of factorials are expressions of values of the factorial function as products of powers of prime numbers. They have been studied by Paul Erdős and others. [1][2][3] The factorial of a positive integer is a product of decreasing integer factors, which can in turn be factored into prime numbers.

  7. Double factorial - Wikipedia

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    Double factorial. The fifteen different chord diagrams on six points, or equivalently the fifteen different perfect matchings on a six-vertex complete graph. These are counted by the double factorial 15 = (6 − 1)‼. In mathematics, the double factorial of a number n, denoted by n‼, is the product of all the positive integers up to n that ...

  8. Gamma function - Wikipedia

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    3.11 Pi function. 3.12 Relation to ... Because the gamma and factorial functions grow so rapidly for moderately large ... if f is a power function and g is a linear ...

  9. Stirling number - Wikipedia

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    Stirling numbers express coefficients in expansions of falling and rising factorials (also known as the Pochhammer symbol) as polynomials.. That is, the falling factorial, defined as = (+) , is a polynomial in x of degree n whose expansion is