Dominik Bathon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:58:40 +0200, Christophe Grandsire > <christophe.grandsire / free.fr> wrote: > >> Christian Neukirchen wrote: >> >>> The real reason is probably that both "factorial" (maths) and >>> "faculty" (university) mean "FakultçÕ" in German... :-) >>> >> >> Must be! :) However, I found this use in at least one page about >> Java, and another one (although I don't remember which language it >> was about, and I can't find it right now), and they didn't strike me >> as having been written by Germans... > > > It seems to be similar in Danish (fakultet), Dutch (fakulteit) and > Swedish (fakultet) (from > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/factorial). And I > think Daniel actually is from Denmark... I am :)