Factorial/Examples/450/Historical Note

Historical Note on $450$ Factorial

The factorial of $450$ was calculated by Horace Scudder Uhler in the $1950$s without the aid of a computer.

As he found it had exactly $1001$ digits, he called it the Arabian Nights factorial:

The first digit of $450!$ falls in the $1001$th place to the left of the decimal point ... this number may be fancifully dubbed the Arabian Nights factorial.


Sources

  • April 1953: Adrian Struyk: Mathematical Miscellanea (The Mathematics Teacher Vol. 46, no. 4: pp. 265 – 273)  www.jstor.org/stable/27954274
  • 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $24$
  • 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $450!$
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