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If I asked you for the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 inclusive, you could solve the problem by an easy formula [ref.: formula for the sum of an arithmetic series ]. But if I asked you for the product of all of the integers from 1 to 100 (or 100!, as this is written), if you didn't have a shortcut you'd come back to me 3 days and several gallons of Red Bull [I hate the stuff] later -- and odds are, if you did the calculation manually, you've introduced at least one error, which makes your result a study in 1 ) discipline and devotion; and 2 ) high unreliability. Happily, over the years, mathematicians have pondered this problem and found a formula to approximate the result. Note that the factorial formula is increasingly accurate as the amount of numbers multiplied grows, i.e., the formula would be rotten for calculating 10!, poor for 100!, passable for 1,000! and very darn close and useful for 10,000! Now "here", as the ignorami [a Lingovation of the highest...

Dear Brain Trainers : We are taught using metaphors , parables and " sayings ." We call them sayings because someone once said them. That is not an assurance of their quality. It is just a statement of the obvious. To make things worse (or more worser yet still), the older they are, the more wisdom is to be assumed to be contained in them. And to further worsen things (to make the worst even more worser yet), the more that people say them, the truer they are. This is interesting, because apparently, there are degrees of truth -- I'll have to consult neighbor Bill Clinton regarding the particulars of this issue. Here, for you pleasure, live (somewhat) from The Braintenance Blog Of Blockbusting Brilliance, we offer you the three stupidest things I've ever heard, excluding such conversational Moronyms as "Notary Republic," Redundons [trite, expressions spoken by members of the Order of Illiterati such as " I'll be here for the duration ," and...