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March 10th, 2016, 05:31 AM   #1
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I was just playing with a graph drawing software and noticed something very interesting. The graph of y = x! , when going further into negative X, turned into a straight line with infinitely long vertical lines coming out of it to both positive and negative Y at every whole number.

Basically it turned into the graph of the formula y = 0, with these vertical lines.
This formula can be seen as y = 0 + x!
And what if 0 is replaced with something else? The graph looks like whatever formula I put there, but with these vertical lines coming out of this line!

Just try some formulas and see it yourself!
$\displaystyle y=x+x!$
$\displaystyle y=x^2+x!$
$\displaystyle y=1/x+x!$
$\displaystyle y=\sin(x)+x!$
$\displaystyle y=\sqrt{-x}+x!$

Blue: $\displaystyle y=\sin(x)$
Black: $\displaystyle y=\sin(x)+x!$

Fun thing, isn't it?
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Last edited by skipjack; March 11th, 2016 at 06:50 AM.

 March 10th, 2016, 06:06 AM #2 Senior Member   Joined: Jun 2015 From: England Posts: 915 Thanks: 271 You can certainly pick out the gamma function in this. https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...01.40EVO9cDzKE
 March 10th, 2016, 07:55 AM #3 Newbie   Joined: Mar 2016 From: Earth Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 yeah right! And because the Y of most points in the y=x! function tends to 0, adding any formula to it will make it look like that formula except for the parts where it goes off to infinity. (and negative infinity)

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