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Re: placing people in a circle and (-1)!
Posted:
Aug 10, 2014 11:08 PM
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Peter Percival wrote:
> William Elliot wrote:
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> > For added confusion, look up the Gamma function G, that's defined
> > for all real numbers except negative integers. For nonnegative integers n,
> > since G(n) = n!,
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> Gamma(n) = (n - 1)!.
Indeed.
> > the gamma function is consider a generalization of
> > factorial. In particual, G(-1) = oo and G(1/2) = (1/2)! = sqr pi.
G(0) = +-oo = G(-n), n in N.
> [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Are you going to take that lying down?
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