Re: product of n successive positive integers
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Re: product of n successive positive integers

From: Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net>
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 02:39:39 CEST

Unruh wrote:
> Yes, that is the n choose k argument. ... But it
> is not self evident that the result is an integer.

I suspect that most people would think that the number
of arrangements of some finite set (according to
certain rules) is necessarily a positive integer, and
that that is self evident.
Received on Mon May 1 02:04:42 2006