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 Hey, I just wached a video by D.r James Grime on YouTube about zero factorial and this popped up so I decided to try it on my own and saw that -1! was -1 but, isn't -1 factorial (!) "-1!= 0!/0=1/0≠-1" because it's divided by zero?

 Jul 9, 2016

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Don't get confused here.  You cannot divide anything by zero. Division by zero is not defined.

 

--  and 0/0 is zero because the numerator is zero.

 Jul 9, 2016
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Don't get confused here.  You cannot divide anything by zero. Division by zero is not defined.

 

--  and 0/0 is zero because the numerator is zero.

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-1!  =  -(1!)  =  -(1)  =  -1

 

0/0 is undefined but it also is an "indeterminate expression", meaning that its value is determined by the problem that created this value. In one case, its value may be 0, in another case, its value may be 1, or -7 or pi/2, etc.

 Jul 9, 2016

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