52!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: humans have a hard time with scale, either at the very large end or the very small end.
Example: 52!. How incomprehensibly large is that value? Here’s a video demonstrating what 52! seconds would be:
That’s insane. Insane.
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.
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I love this kind of stuff. I doubt that anyone who reads this garbage blog is interested enough in this to watch the vid, but it’s fascinating to me.
Also, I’ve never seen integration by parts done the way he does it. Cool!
Yo Dawg, I Herd U Like Factorials
Have you ever wondered why zero factorial (0!) equals 1? One of my students sent me a link to this explanation. It’s pretty intuitive when explained this way.
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN HERO
Y’all want some cool math stuff?
Of course you do.
Nate was reading a Reddit thread titled “What is the coolest mathematical fact you know of?” The two that were the coolest to me are the following:
An explanation of just how many different ways there are to uniquely shuffle a deck of 52 cards.
Graham’s number. Ridiculous.
Seriously, read these. Numbers are amazing.
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