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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Derivative of x! and actual interviews
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 08:34:02 EST
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> > Perhaps the interviewer who used this question will one day be fortunate
> > enough to face an equally petty interviewer.
> 
> I suggest that the proper response to this question in real life is:
> 
> "x! isn't differentiable, because it isn't continuous.  Or did you mean
> the derivative of the gamma function, the real-number analog of x!?" (?!)

Petty interviewer: "Don't give me that, you little snot.  You know
	what I want!"
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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