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Author	ilan
Recipients	ajaksu2, alanmcintyre, avalind, dtorp, ilan, mark.dickinson, phr, rhettinger
Date	2008-03-17.23:18:35
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Message-id	<1205795916.84.0.966641331319.issue2138@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The factorial function is most likely to be used in context with other combinatorial functions (like binomial coefficients) for these functions an external module seems most appropriate. Most likely people would use a factorial function only for some small toy calculation, for those cases one can always roll a factorial function oneself. Python should therefore not be cluttered with this function. I discussed this with several developers at PyCon08, and have therefore decided to close the discussion for now.

The factorial function is most likely to be used in context with other
combinatorial functions (like binomial coefficients) for these functions
an external module seems most appropriate.  Most likely people would
use a factorial function only for some small toy calculation, for those
cases one can always roll a factorial function oneself.  Python should
therefore not be cluttered with this function.  I discussed this with
several developers at PyCon08, and have therefore decided to close the
discussion for now.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-03-17 23:18:37	ilan	set	spambayes_score: 0.0410188 -> 0.0410188 recipients: + ilan, rhettinger, phr, mark.dickinson, dtorp, alanmcintyre, ajaksu2, avalind
2008-03-17 23:18:36	ilan	set	spambayes_score: 0.0410188 -> 0.0410188 messageid: <1205795916.84.0.966641331319.issue2138@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-03-17 23:18:36	ilan	link	issue2138 messages
2008-03-17 23:18:35	ilan	create