[AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw....

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Feb 12 18:20:00 CST 2003


>>I don't know how long ! has meant factorial in the math world.

For the last 50 years at least, Drew.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:42 PM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw....


Hmmmmm...wasn't really speaking programatically.  I was speaking from
math terms...I don't know how long ! has meant factorial in the math
world.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:53 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw....


I'm not sure about this one, Drew, but as an official old timer I'm
pretty sure that ! meant NOT before it meant Factorial. I learned != as
NOT EQUAL in something like 1984-5. So I'm on the side of the demented
whacko. What languages support ! as Factorial? I would have thought such
a rarely used formula would naturally fall outside the language
definition and be implemented instead as a function Factorial(), or left
for you to write.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: February 11, 2003 5:05 PM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw....

First of all, what demented whacko
decided that != is 'not equal'?  ! is for factorial.  How does that turn
an equal sign into a 'not equal' sign.  However, <> does make
mathematical sense, because something cannot be both less then, and
greater then another number, so it represents an inequality...at least
more then a factorial does!


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