Re: virus: Re: Virus: Tools of the trade

ken sartor (sartor@visidyne.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:08:09 -0500


At 04:18 AM 9/25/96 EDT, KMO prime wrote:
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>On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:01:15 -0500 (CDT) zaimoni@ksu.edu writes:
>>Evaluating a 26x26
>>matrix's
>>determinant BY THE DEFINITION will take 26!-1 additions, and 26!*25
>>multiplications.
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>How does one read 26!-1?

26 factorial minus 1 == 26*25*24*23*...*1 - 1 (the minus 1 is kinda
irrelevant since the
number is humongous)