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The word "factorial" (originally French: factorielle) was first used in 1800 by Louis François Antoine Arbogast, [18] in the first work on Faà di Bruno's formula, [19] but referring to a more general concept of products of arithmetic progressions. The "factors" that this name refers to are the terms of the product formula for the factorial. [20]
1. Factorial: if n is a positive integer, n! is the product of the first n positive integers, and is read as "n factorial". 2. Double factorial: if n is a positive integer, n!! is the product of all positive integers up to n with the same parity as n, and is read as "the double factorial of n". 3.
The factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n.For example, 5! = 5×4×3×2×1 = 120. By convention, the value of 0! is defined as 1.
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.
In mathematics, a unary operation is an operation with only one operand, i.e. a single input. [1] This is in contrast to binary operations, which use two operands. [2] An example is any function : , where A is a set; the function is a unary operation on A.
3 factorial factorial log which sends "factorial" to 3, then "factorial" to the result (6), then "log" to the result (720), producing the result 2.85733. A series of expressions can be written as in the following (hypothetical) example, each separated by a period (period is a statement separator, not a statement terminator).
(α) to most complex numbers z, this definition has the feature of working for all positive real values of α. Furthermore, when α = 1, this definition is mathematically equivalent to the Π(z) function, described above. Also, when α = 2, this definition is mathematically equivalent to the alternative extension of the double factorial.
For example, an add instruction does not know how to deal with 3 + future factorial(100000). In pure actor or object languages this problem can be solved by sending future factorial(100000) the message +[3] , which asks the future to add 3 to itself and return the result.