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[–] 67 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    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.

    n!! is its own operator called the "double factorial" and is even smaller than the regular !, because it's the product of only the odd numbers up to n.

    Edit: escape characters

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think 30 should look better than 15.
    Like 7 legs on each side and one in the back as mechanical afterburner?

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