Re: factorial doc bug?

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: factorial doc bug?
Date: 2001-09-10 05:03:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0109101501470.27552-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> In typeconv.sgml we have an example:
>
> tgl=> select (4.3 !);
> ?column?
> ----------
> 24
> (1 row)

Mathematically speaking, one cannot find the factorial of such a
number. Users could easily cast/round a float to an integer - making it
suitable for such an operation.

I'd say it was a documentation issue.

Gavin

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