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·······@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu "Jason Soukeras" writes:
> If I figure out what 1000! is
> and divide it by a number that is 3 digits shorter... and then do the
> same thing w/ another number that is 3 digits shorter but one more than
> the first...will the portion of the answer to the left of the decimal
> place be the same?
Are you wanting to divide by any particular number or by the factorial
result with the last three digits lopped off? If the latter, then I
would think your expectations are wrong:
Let 1000! = 1000*N, so N is your divisor.
Then 1000!/N = 1000
But 1000!/(N+1) = 1000.(N/(N+1)) ~= 999.999 for large N
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