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Shriek Not Factorial

May 22, 2017

Text only: a campaign to rename the factorial symbol '!' as 'shriek', as some mathematicians call it.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-22-shriek-not-factorial/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"In some languages, 5! is read not as 'five factorial' but as 'five shriek.' Have you ever felt so ashamed of your native tongue?"

[Box] "FACTORIAL IS WEAK. VOTE FOR SHRIEK."

Topics
Discrete Math › FactorialsDiscrete Math › CombinatoricsMath Culture › Vocabulary & Notation
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