Re: factorial for float complaint

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 02 June 2006 10:24 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Should gnuplot be giving this kind of result?
>
> gnuplot> print -3!
> -6.0

operator precedence.  factorial trumps negation.

gnuplot> print (-3)!
1.0

which is still a bit unexpected, but shows that
negative input is treated as being zero.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA