• yesman@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If you’re doing a factorial the long way, is there any reason to multiply anything times one? It seems like you could just skip it, but I’m not a math guy.

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      7 hours ago

      I guess if it’s a show-your-work situation then you’d want to keep it in your equations, otherwise, yeah, I don’t see why you couldn’t just drop it.