Aalice.498 net.general utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!alice!rhm Thu Feb 11 11:11:37 1982 Re: Correction on Factorial Function Not only is it not the Zeta function, it is not analytic and cannot be made analytic. The reason for the convenction is much simpler and is found on the real line not in the complex plane. I answered sjb's question privately as did many others. Do we really need to continue with erroneous commentary that could be found in an elementary textbook?