From: ECaffer@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 17:34:47 PDT
From: ECaffer@aol.com Message-ID: <27604623.2509ac27@aol.com> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:34:47 EDT Subject: Zero Factorial
During an 8th grade class investigation into factorials, the students
discovered via a scientific calculator that 0! = 1. Most predicted 0! would
be 0. Does anyone have an explanation and/or some activities that would
explain why 0! is equal to 1 that would make sense to 8th graders?
Many thanks,
Ellen Cafferata
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