On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8:31:59 AM UTC-7, prateek sharma wrote: > > From the given code for > sage:5.multifactorial(3) > 5 > But the result should be 10. >
There has been work on this: http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/5415 but it looks like momentum was lost. There seems to be some disagreement on what "multifactorial" should be. The description says: For k=1 this is the standard factorial, and for k greater than one it is the product of every k-th terms down from self to k. which for n=5 and k=3 would indeed be the product of just five (since the next term would be 5-3=2, which is smaller than 3) so the output you get does seem to be in accordance with the definition that sage's documentation uses. It may well be (and that is what the ticket indicates too) that sage's documentation does not agree with common mathematical convention. If you are interested in helping to get this issue resolved, the appropriate place to start would be the linked ticket. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
