I guess I should do some type of introduction, as this is my first post, but really I don't like introductions, so I'm going to make it short and simple.
I am a teenager who has recently come to discover the extreme complexity behind the human mind and beliefs that it holds. I simply want to try my best to understand what is going on around me, and somehow make people understand what I'm thinking (which can be quite a challenge, trust me). This blog will mostly be my random philosophies that are thought up while reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music, etc. I may even throw some personal stuff in there, because isn't that what a blog is for?
I will always try to keep the books I'm reading and movies I'm watching updated over at the right, so you can try your best to understand what I'm thinking and what sparked my revelations.
So yesterday, a friend and I were being our normal nerdy selves (yes, I am quite a geek at times), and noticed that you are able to perform factorials of only whole numbers and their halves, which at first was interesting in itself, but then we discovered how to calculate the half factorials. We discovered that they are very similar to their whole number counterparts, except for the fact that they are then multiplied by the square root of pi. For example, 5!=5x4x3x2x1, but 5.5!=5.5x4.5x3.5x2.5x1.5x.5x(square root of pi). I looked the reason for this up on Wikipedia, but it has something to do with something called the Gamma function, which is basically Morse code to a deaf person for me. If anyone could help, that would be great!
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