Spyke
lemmy.world

I can’t even imagine a bug with 30!! legs, that would be an absolutely absurd number.

4.285 × 10^16 legs would just look silly.

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Mirodirreply
discuss.tchncs.de

Tangetially related: For the people who don't know, I found out recently that x!! isn't the same as (x!)! (repeated factorial), in fact, !! is a LOT less big than repeated factorial.

For example, while 30!! is 4.286 x 10^16 (so a number with 17 digits), doing 30! and then ! the result of that, would be a number with an unfathomable 10^33 digits.

n!! is its own operator called the "double factorial" and is even smaller than the regular !, because it's the product of only the odd numbers up to n.

Edit: escape characters

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saigotreply
lemmy.ca

x!_(n) is the product of the positive numbers congruent to x (mod n) and less than or equal to x. put more simply x*(x-n)*(x-2n)...

so 10!!! = 10*7*4*1

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Mirodirreply
discuss.tchncs.de

No clue. Wolfram Alpha interprets it as (10!!)!, so I assume !!! isn't an established operator, unlike the very unintuitive !!.

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naeapreply
sopuli.xyz

I think 30 should look better than 15.
Like 7 legs on each side and one in the back as mechanical afterburner?

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9point6reply
lemmy.world

The other guy was making a maths joke

"30!!" Is 30 double factorial and therefore that very large number

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I assume it's like my third leg, which I mostly just let drag. Occasionally, I'll throw it over my shoulder like a continental soldier.

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