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subtext@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I can’t even imagine a bug with 30!! legs, that would be an absolutely absurd number.
4.285 × 10^16 legs would just look silly.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
naeap@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
I think 30 should look better than 15.
Like 7 legs on each side and one in the back as mechanical afterburner?9point6@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The other guy was making a maths joke
“30!!” Is 30 double factorial and therefore that very large number
naeap@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Ah, fuck…got wooshed
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I assume it’s like my third leg, which I mostly just let drag. Occasionally, I’ll throw it over my shoulder like a continental soldier.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m sure they’d love to have a spare. Accidents happen, you know?
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Tangetially related: For the people who don’t know, I found out recently that x!! isn’t the same as (x!)! (repeated factorial), in fact, !! is a LOT less big than repeated factorial.
For example, while 30!! is 4.286 x 10^16 (so a number with 17 digits), doing 30! and then ! the result of that, would be a number with an unfathomable 10^33 digits.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Til. What’s 10!!! ?
saigot@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
x!^(n) is the product of the positive numbers congruent to x (mod n) and less than or equal to x. put more simply x*(x-n)*(x-2n)…
so 10!!! = 10*7*4*1
icelimit@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Til. What’s 10. ?
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
No clue. Wolfram Alpha interprets it as (10!!)!, so I assume !!! isn’t an established operator, unlike the very unintuitive !!.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Above dude says it’s 1074*1.