When you examined it attentively, the entire audience seemed to resolve itself into an endless repetition of the same small group of two persons of two sexes, each soliciting the other's favor; a man and a woman sitting close together, the couple, the factorial two-everywhere, all round the circle, along the three visible rows of stalls, and again in the private boxes.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The possible connections within it were factorial one hundred thousand.
"Unwise Child"
Gordon Randall Garrett
1868 Nov 9 On the factorial Resolution of the Trinomial Camb.
"Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy"
George Biddell Airy