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5607348

Anonymous Wed Mar 13 19:17:32 2013 No.5607348 [Reply] [Original]

this has any solution

>>	None !3BananaXFw Wed Mar 13 19:19:17 2013 No.5607353 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x!%20%3D%20-1 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 19:20:03 2013 No.5607356 >>5607348 x=-1 x! is summing all the integers from 0 to x right?

>>	None !3BananaXFw Wed Mar 13 19:21:17 2013 No.5607359 >>5607356 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 19:30:27 2013 No.5607381 Of course it doesn't have a solution, isn't that obvious? >Not using the gamma function in all situations ever

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 19:31:47 2013 No.5607385 Aleph-zero

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 19:45:03 2013 No.5607429 >>5607381 >needing continuity in combinatorics ever

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 20:00:18 2013 No.5607468 >>5607348 This doesn't have any solutions. Not even the gamma function extends into the negative domain.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 21:00:18 2013 No.5607660 >>5607468 analytically continue that shit bro

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 21:03:32 2013 No.5607665 >>5607468 its only poles are the non-positive integers

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 21:10:47 2013 No.5607672 >>5607660 >>5607665 Yes you are right. I derped. I suppose I never need for the negative values. I use them in stats it never comes up.