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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"!" in math is the factorial symbol, and 2 factorial is just 2 times 1, which is 2.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Whereas != is commonly used in programming as "not equal to".

So the mathematician see two factorial equals two, which is true.

The programmer sees two is not equal to two, which is not true.