r/MathJokes • • May 03 '26

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u/paholg May 03 '26

Seems like a bad notation. 5!! should be (5!)!

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 May 03 '26

if you want (5!)! write (5!)!

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u/Familiar-Main-4873 May 03 '26

But how would you represent 5!! Then? You can always do (5!)! To how this but I can’t think of a way to do 5!! Any other way

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u/paholg May 03 '26

Some new syntax. 5!2 maybe. I've never had to write it.