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[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd prefer an alternative definition that starts with the base case ¡0! = 1, and then for n > 0 we define ¡n! = n * -¡(n-1)!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How are you going to flip the signs though?

[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

oop there was a real stupid typo where I forgot the minus sign lmao

it's fixed now