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Misses an opportunity to talk about Stirling's approximation to the factorial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation https://en.wikipedia.or
by ipsin 5y ago
Misses an opportunity to talk about Stirling's approximation to the factorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation
Gigantic fake numbers are rubbish (I believe that 110%), but saving work with approximation is cool.
- OscarCunningham 5y agoRight. The number n! Is approximately exp(n log(n)). So it's still bounded by an exponential of some polynomial of n.