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The Bouncing Factorial is a type of factorial that multiplies together the integers from 1 to some number n, then back to 1, then back to (n-1), then to 1, then to (n-2), and so on. It is denoted

$n\Lambda$ .[1]

## Example Edit

For instance, the bouncing factorial of 9 is equal to 1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1*2*3*4*5*6*7*6*5*4*3*2*1*2*3*4*5*6*5*4*3*2*1*2*3*4*5*4*3*2*1*2*3*4*3*2*1*2*3*2*1*2*1, or 9,278,496,603,801,318,870,491,332,608,000,000,000.

Pictured above is a visualization of the bouncing factorial of 9, where every new multiplication peak has been colored for clarity. The numbers above the peaks refer to their height in units. The x-axis may be thought of as time, and the y-axis as quantity. The bouncing factorial of 9 is equal to the product of the quantities of all those little colored squares.

## Values Edit

The first few values of the function are:

• $$1Λ = 1$$
• $$2Λ = 2$$ (1×2×1)
• $$3Λ = 24$$ (1×2×3×2×1×2×1)
• $$4Λ = 3,456$$ (1×2×3×4×3×2×1×2×3×2×1×2×1)
• $$5Λ = 9,953,280$$ (1×2×3×4×5×4×3×2×1×2×3×4×3×2×1×2×3×2×1×2×1)
• $$6Λ = 859,963,392,000$$ (1×2×3×4×5×6×5×4×3×2×1×...)
• $$7Λ = 3,120,635,156,889,600,000$$ (1×2×3×4×5×6×7×6×5×4×3×2×1×...)
• $$8Λ = 634,153,008,009,974,906,880,000,000$$ (1×2×3×4×5×6×7×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×1×...)
• $$9Λ = 9,278,496,603,801,318,870,491,332,608,000,000,000$$ (1×2×3×4×5×6×7×8×9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×1×...)
• $$10Λ = 912,218,100,099,725,239,100,847,669,366,019,325,952,000,000,000,000$$ (1×2×3×4×5×6×7×8×9×10×9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×1×...)

## Formal description Edit

The Bouncing Factorial of n can be formally defined as

$n(\prod_{i=1}^{n-1} i^{2n-2i+1})$ . This formula holds true for all values of n greater than 1. When n equals one, the bouncing factorial is 1. It may also be recursively defined as

$Z_{n+1}={{(n+1)!^2}/(n+1)}*Z_n$ where

$Z_1=1$ .

It can also be calculated as n!×(n-1)!×(n-1)Λ for n > 1.

## Primes Edit

$$3\Lambda -1$$ is prime. As of the time this was written, no other primes have been found of the form $$n\Lambda -1$$ for values of n less than or equal to 10.

## Source Edit

1. Powerful Functions - The Repository Of Large Numbers
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