From: Dominik Bathon <dbatml@...>
Date: 2005-09-19T10:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Math: sum and faculty

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 "Fakult�t" 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...