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minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agoIf 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.
minus-squaregigastasio@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-27 hours agoI 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.
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.
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.