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January 24, 2011, 09:42:18 am »
Hello everybody,
I know the basics of factorials:
5! = 5*4*3*2*1 = 120
However, I do not know about negative numbers and how to use them in calculus and what they are useful for.
I know floats won't work
Can someone tell me some more about them?
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January 24, 2011, 09:45:33 am »
Negative factorials do not work, apparently. But also keep in mind that 0!=1
*As a side note, I am working on making a way to find things like 3.1!
That will take a few years of playing with numbers, though.
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January 24, 2011, 11:23:31 am »
Xeda, I'm not sure the factorial operation is defined for decimals. Isn't it just the product of all positive integers less than or equal to a number N?
Even if you do extend the definition to decimals, as I did in below screenshot, it still gives you odd results.
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January 24, 2011, 11:31:48 am »
Ah, but I came up with a way to find the sum of, say, X^2 from 3.1 to 4.6.
(2X^3+3X^2+X)/6
Just plug in 4.6 and 3.1
I've been working with Pascals Triangle and I have methods of defining nCr in terms of sums as opposed to factorials. It is going to be a VERY complicated process, but I am working on a method to find, say 3.1 C 4.2
Believe me, it is a really messed up, convoluted process that doesn't use 3.1*2.1*1.1. Many mathematicians have done similar things and they started with an easy, finite equation and resulted in an infinite equation when they applied decimals.
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January 24, 2011, 12:06:40 pm »
Might I interest you in the Gamma function?
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January 24, 2011, 12:24:16 pm »
You may...
Also note that I do a lot of things just for fun and so that I can figure it out... I've also done work that leads to the Zeta functions.
So about this Gamma function...
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The gamma function gives out the same answers as the Factorial function, but works for all Real and Complex numbers
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January 24, 2011, 12:34:16 pm »
ooooh! That sounds very nice! When I get back from my classes I'll have to check out Wolfram... For now, I have to go :'(
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Just know that Omnicalc has a build in Gamma function
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January 24, 2011, 01:40:13 pm »
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the Gamma function
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Hmm, Omnicalc has proven quite useful for that kind of thing. I always seem to think of it as a sprite program and whatnot, but then again, I started using it before I appreciated all the math functions.
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January 30, 2011, 02:53:44 am »
A small caveat to the gamma function: it still does not take negative integers.
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Ah, so there is still something for me to figure out
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January 30, 2011, 02:58:51 am »
The
wikiedpia article on factorials
maybe be an enjoyable read if you're in to this sort of stuff. The link I posted is specifically talking about some negative stuff.
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January 30, 2011, 03:01:45 am »
Maybe I should have rephrased a bit differently: The gamma function for positive integers follows the following property: gamma(x)=(x-1)!. Hence gamma(1)=0!=1, for instance.
However, what is gamma(0)? It would equal to (-1)!. But using the factorial recurrence formula would give us 0(-1)!=0!=1. In other words, (-1)! = 1/0. This is bad; hence, (-1)! is not defined, and so is gamma(0).
Most other numbers still have a gamma function attached to it, for example gamma(-1/2), gamma(3+4i), and gamma(1337.42i), but zero and negative numbers when plugged into gamma generate an undefined result, because their respective factorials are undefined as well.
EDIT: Aw darn, sniped
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