Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The product of all the positive integers from 1 to a given number: 4 factorial, usually written 4!, is equal to 24 (1 × 2 × 3 × 4 = 24).
- adj. Of or relating to a factor or factorial.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a factor or factory; constituting a factory.
- In mathematics, of or pertaining to a factor or factorials. See II.
- n. In mathematics, a continued product of the form Fx, F(x+1), F(x+2), F(x+3), … F(x+n), in which every factor after the first is derived from the preceding by increasing the variable by unity.
Wiktionary
- n. mathematics, combinatorics The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 = 120.
- adj. mathematics Of or pertaining to a factor or factorial.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a factor.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a factory.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a factory.
- adj. (Math.) Related to factorials.
- n. A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement
h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) … F[x + (n-1)h] is called afactorial term , and its several factors take the name offactorials . - n. The product of the consecutive whole numbers from unity up to any given number.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer
- adj. of or relating to factorials
Examples
“AL CARDENAS, EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN: The types of injuries were multi-factorial, that is, head injuries, orthopedic injuries, abdominal, intra-abdominal injuries.”
“The results of these studies have led to what is called the factorial hypothesis of heredity, [45] according to which all the visible characters of the adult are produced by (purely hypothetical) factors in the germ-plasm; it is the factors that are inherited, and they, under proper conditions for development, produce the characters.”
“∗ The exclamation mark is called a factorial and represents the product of consecutive integers from 1 to the number before the factorial symbol.”
“The continuous product of the first 'n' natural numbers is called factorial n and is deonoted by n!”
“This pattern is called a factorial in mathematics.”
“= 1 The function int → int that gives n! on input n is called the factorial function n! is the number of permutations of n distinct objects There is just one permutation of one object.”
“- smp enable - sname factorial - mnesia debug verbose”
“this will call factorial on a string, matching it with the n pattern?”
“In [[mathematics]], the '' 'factorial' '' function”
“In [[mathematics]], the '' 'factorial' '' function gives the number of ways in which '' n '' labelled objects (for example the numbers from 1 to '' n '') can be arranged in order.”
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