Re: Shrieks and splashes

In message <1119714192.018782.260550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx" <mensanator@xxxxxxx> writes


ps218@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I think I'm getting old ....

The other day, talking about primitive recursive functions, I
pronounced "n!" (for the factorial of n) as "en shriek", and the boys
and girls looked as if I was being even stranger than usual ....

I essayed "en splash" as -- so I thought -- a familiar alternative.
Nope. Still got a "bizarreness reaction".

So OK, OK, how do you pronounce it, I asked ... but no one (albeit in a

very small group) had anything to offer.

Well, once upon a long time ago, "shriek" for "!" was commonplace. But
what DO people say these days???


Bang.

And "splash" isn't a good choice because it's too close to
"splat" (*).

But maybe that's just here in the US.


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Have teachers stopped saying n! as "n factorial"?

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Jeremy Boden
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