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Recursion for the Factorial of a Natural Number

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Reason: First publication. Supplies the factorial recursion $1!=1$, $(n+1)!=(n+1)\cdot n!$, which the corpus lacked: the factorial is defined as a finite product whose recursive clause is stated in the awkward $n\ge 2$, $n-1$ form, and subtraction is not defined on the natural numbers. · 562 chars · 3 deps · depth 11

The factorial satisfies 1!=11!=1 and (n+1)!=(n+1) n!(n+1)!=(n+1)\,n! for every natural number nn.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let n!n! be the factorial of n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}. It is the finite product ∏i=1ni\prod_{i=1}^{n}i, and that definition admits only real factors, so 1,…,n1,\dots,n there, and every other natural number occurring below, are read in R\mathbb{R} through the canonical map of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background §numbers; in particular n!n! is a real number.

Then

1!=1,(n+1)!=(n+1)⋅n!(n∈N).1!=1, \qquad (n+1)!=(n+1)\cdot n!\qquad(n\in\mathbb{N}).
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