The graph of the factorial function has a fixed-length first-order formula in the language of ordered rings interpreted on the natural numbers. A remainder code records , , and for every . Uniqueness of remainders proves ; sufficiently large pairwise-coprime moduli and the Chinese remainder theorem supply a code for every input. Formula length is independent of the input variable's value, although substituting a numeral adds its encoding length.
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