Original post: https://feddit.de/post/13150286
30! ≈ 2.7*10^32 according to WolframAlpha
Now September has about 6.2*10^23 days, which is several orders of magnitude longer than the age of the known universe.
When you use an exclamation mark with a number, you’re actually implying it’s not a normal number any more. It’s a factorial!
Ok, so how does this work?
5!=1×2×3×4×5=120
6!=720
These numbers get really large. For example:
15!≈1.3×10^12
So, next time you see a headline with 2000! in it, you’ll know what to expect.
There are also double factorials (n!!) and iterated factorials (n!)!, and they aren’t the same thing. Just add more exclamation marks and you get multifactorial. Check wikipedia to see how spicy it gets.
