Re: Trying to recursively define a double factorial
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- Subject: [mg126533] Re: Trying to recursively define a double factorial
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza10 at msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 04:11:35 -0400 (EDT)
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I can't see where the "double" comes in. It seems to be an ordinary factorial and a Table of values for the factorial. E.g.
In[15]:= Clear[MyF1, n]; MyF1[n_Integer] := n*MyF1[n - 1] /; n > 1; MyF1[1]= 1;
In[16]:= Table[MyF1[k], {k, 3, 6}]
Out[16]= {6, 24, 120, 720}
-Tomas
> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 04:20:52 -0400
> From: monsterbone at msn.com
> Subject: Trying to recursively define a double factorial
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> My goal here is to define a recursive function for a double factorial. T=
he domain of this function is the set of positive integers. For a positive=
even integer n the value DF[n] is the product of all positive even integ=
ers which are <n. For a positive odd integer n the value DF[n] is the=
product of all positive odd integers which are <n.
>
> I wanna make a recursive function of this double factorial without If(and=
other similar statements). Here is my work so far:
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> Clear[MyF1, n];
> MyF1[1] = 1;
> MyF1[n_Integer] /; (n > 0) := MyF1[n] = n*MyF1[n - 1]
>
> Table[MyF1[k], {k, (*integer*), (*integer*)}]
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>
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> How do I do this?
>
- References:
- Trying to recursively define a double factorial
- From: Jorge Cantu <monsterbone@msn.com>
- Trying to recursively define a double factorial