Time for Factorials

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Given that a i a_i\geq 0 for n i 1 n\geq i \geq 1 Is there a solution for i = 1 n a i ! = X ! \sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i !=X! where n 1 n\geq 1 and X X\geq a i a_i

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1 solution

Tan Peng
Nov 2, 2018

WLOG a n a n 1 a 1 a_n\geq a_{n-1} \geq \dots \geq a_1 . Note that X > a n X>a_n since factorials is a monotonicaly increasing function. We have i = 1 n a i ! n ( a n ! ) \sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i ! \leq n(a_n !) i = 1 n a i ! a n ! n \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i !}{a_n !} \leq n i = 1 n a i ! a n ! { 2 , 3 , 4. , n } \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i !}{a_n !} \in\ \{2,3,4.\dots,n\} We note that for some X ! n X!\neq n cannot work since λ ! 1 \lambda!\geq 1 . Thus, the possible solution is X = n , a n = n 1 X=n,a_n=n-1 which yields n 1 = a n = a n 1 = = a 1 n-1=a_n= a_{n-1} = \dots = a_1

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