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Some Factorials Equal Score Exponent (Posted on 2024-04-04) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find all possible values of a real number r such that:
r! = r20

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
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Some Thoughts I found ... | Comment 2 of 3 |
1 and about 27.5247695102145
1 is the obvious solution just by inspection.

But Desmos shows there is a solution between 27 and 28
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ydj4bcgrdk

The program below, searching values greater than 1, quickly zooms in on the other solution.  When searching between 2 and 100 subdivided into 1000 intervals, it finds a solution that is between 27.48 and 27.578.  Manually fine tuning the hi and lo values to be searched yields the other solution.

I was unable to search negative numbers because apparently the Python gamma function I am using does not accept negative inputs.

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import math

# lo = 27.524769510214558
# hi = 27.52476951021458
lo = 2
hi = 100
slices = 1000

for n in range(slices+1):
    if n == 0:
        prior = True
    x = lo + n*(hi-lo)/slices
    big20 = x**20
    gama = math.gamma(x+1)
    if big20 > gama:
        notyet = True
    else:
        notyet = False
        if prior == True:
            print(x - (hi-lo)/slices, x)
            break
    prior = notyet

  Posted by Larry on 2024-04-04 10:14:20
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