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FancyNut
Nov12-04, 08:04 AM
I forgot most things about factorials but now I have to use them again to simplify expressions while doing convergence tests... What I know is:

(n +1) ! = (n +1) n!

(2n +1)! = (2n +1) 2n! ?

but I don't know how to deal with these:

(n -1) ! = ?

(2n-1) ! = ?

Thanks for any help.

FancyNut
Nov12-04, 09:11 AM
I know they're pretty easy but I don't have any algebra text/reference to look them up... :redface:

Yegor
Nov12-04, 09:18 AM
At first (2n+1)!=(2n)!(2n+1)
(n-1)!=n!/n
(2n-1)!=(2n)!/2n

FancyNut
Nov12-04, 09:19 AM
Thank you, sir. :)