Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire / free.fr> writes:

> HaPK wrote:
>> Am I missing something, but why "faculty" ? Why not factorial ?
>> 
>
> It's just a (not so much used in my experience) synonym for
> "factorial" AFAIK. Incidently (and coincidently :) ), I first saw this
> word used as a synonym of factorial a few days ago only, in the
> Haskell98 report. The little I've seen it when googling seems to
> indicate that its use is limited to programming. The term "factorial"
> is by far the most used.

The real reason is probably that both "factorial" (maths) and
"faculty" (university) mean "FakultçÕ" in German... :-)

> Christophe Grandsire.
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