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15039186 No.15039186 [Reply] [Original]

why's it do this?

>> No.15039220

>>15039186
What a dumb program, it can't tell the difference between !x and the gamma function

>> No.15039277

>>15039186
Something something Riemann hypothesis

>> No.15039742

>>15039186
negative integer factorials include a 1/0 term, which is equal to ±∞

>> No.15039801

>>15039742
>what is renormalization
Can mathematicians into math?

>> No.15039862

Nigger, look up gamma function. That's basically how factorial is approximated in calculators

>> No.15040155

>>15039801
>Can mathematicians into math?
sure
physicists, on the other hand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Renormalization#c-Daqu-2010-11-04T06:15:00.000Z-Cgoakley-2008-06-12T12:50:00.000Z

>> No.15041205

Gamma function and analytic continuation. It's not actually n! per say, it's just the most sensible definition for non natural numbers. But you could make other functions that look different and they would still be candidates for the continuation of n! as long as every natural number you input matches the output of n!. We just use this one because it's the least arbitrary definition, Occam's razor basically.