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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

The fuck is a "factorial"? They didn't teach me that one in high school math and I couldn't afford college.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Im sorry your highschool curriculum failed to teach you. I learned factorals in jr highschool

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

4 factorial (written as 4!) is 4•3•2•1

I think this example explains it perfectly lol

Edit: using • instead of * to avoid markdown

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just a small correction in case you didn't know, but your answer shows as 432*1 because Lemmy formats text wrapped by * as italic, so it thinks you want to italicize the 3. You meant to write 4*3*2*1 (written as 4\*3\*2\*1). This is because \ is an escape character that tells lemmy not to take the * as a formatting character.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Right, i sometimes forget about markdown lol. Yeah, it obviously is 4•3•2•1

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