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Get The Fact(orials)

Ugh, the Gamma Function.

He is a wild child, but he is extremely cool.

What’s even wilder is that you can actually model some probabilities using this thing.

Isn’t that just…wild?

I love this kind of stuff.

I’ve been waiting years for this

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the statistically perfect pack of M&Ms!

How is it statistically perfect, you ask? Well, if you take a look at Mars’ website, you can find the percentage of all M&Ms that each color represents. 30% of all M&Ms are brown, red and yellow both make up 20%, and orange, green and blue each make up 10%. Therefore, in a bag of 23 M&Ms, we would have seven brown, five red, five yellow, two orange, two green, and two blue. For a perfect example of this, see above photo.

My day has just been made.

(And yes, I know this boosts my dork level to even higher levels; I don’t care!)