query: Why is the Gamma function off by 1 from the factorial?
positive_passages.docid: 19006
positive_passages.text: Why isn't the gamma function defined so that $\Gamma(n) = n! $?
negative_passages.docid: 10692
negative_passages.text: Why is 24.0000 not equal to 24.0000 in MATLAB?
negative_passages.docid: 24694
negative_passages.text: Why does a fourier series have a 1/2 in front of the a_0 coefficient
negative_passages.docid: 96382
negative_passages.text: Minimum of the Gamma Function $\Gamma (x)$ for $x>0$. How to find $x_{\min}$?
negative_passages.docid: 40019
negative_passages.text: Showing that $\gamma = -\int_0^{\infty} e^{-t} \log t \,dt$, where $\gamma$ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
negative_passages.docid: 34114
negative_passages.text: What is $\max{(1/\alpha+1/\beta+|1/\gamma|+|1/\delta|)}$?
negative_passages.docid: 69228
negative_passages.text: Factorial of 0 - a convenience?
negative_passages.docid: 60470
negative_passages.text: Sum of truncated Gammas and degenerate
negative_passages.docid: 69385
negative_passages.text: Simple approximation of Inverse Incomplete gamma function
negative_passages.docid: 27347
negative_passages.text: Verify that $\left|\int_{\gamma} \exp(iz^2)dz\right| \leq \frac{\pi\big(1-\exp(-r^2)\big)}{4r}$ where $\gamma(t)=re^{it}$, for $0\leq t \leq \pi/4$.
negative_passages.docid: 9484
negative_passages.text: Why does the sum of the reciprocals of factorials converge to $e$?
negative_passages.docid: 135728
negative_passages.text: Why during annihilation of an electron and positron 2 gamma rays are produced instead of 1?
negative_passages.docid: 108021
negative_passages.text: What does the factorial of a negative number signify?
negative_passages.docid: 25425
negative_passages.text: Intuition for the definition of the Gamma function?
negative_passages.docid: 31907
negative_passages.text: Why does N[1.000 01, 10] return 1.00001, but N[1.000 001, 10] returns only 1.?
negative_passages.docid: 45280
negative_passages.text: Is there an Inverse Gamma $\Gamma^{-1} (z) $ function?
negative_passages.docid: 28145
negative_passages.text: What is $\Gamma(z) \Gamma(\bar {z})$?