Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: mathlib4
Topic: falling factorial as polynomial
Moritz Firsching (Sep 01 2023 at 10:08):
We have Pochhammer, which is the rising factorial as polynomial. Wouldn't it be nice to also have falling factorial as a polynomial? (I need it in a proof currently)
What would be a good name? I think it might be a good idea to change pochhammer
to raisingFactorial
and then add fallingFactorial
.
We already have the corresponding ascFactorial
and descFactorial
for Nat, so if it is too confusing to call the polynomials raisingFactorial
and fallingFactorial
, one could also go with ascFactorialPolynomial
and descFactorialPolynomial
or raisingFactorialPolynomial
and fallingFactorialPolynomial
I guess one could also simply go with pochhammer
and pochhammer'
(or even pochhammer
and remmahhcop
, just kidding)
What do you think?
Yaël Dillies (Sep 01 2023 at 10:09):
What about ascPochhammer
/descPochhammer
?
Moritz Firsching (Sep 01 2023 at 13:12):
Ok, I made a proposal for ascPochhammer
, descPochhammer
in #6917 (the rename) and #6918 (adding descPochhammer
) , reviews most welcome!
Last updated: Dec 20 2023 at 11:08 UTC