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Is there any way I can 'undo' the factorial operation? JUst like you can do squares and square roots, can you do factorials and factorial roots (for lack of a better term)?

Here is an example: 5! = 120. Is there a way I can work out the number that must be factorialed (??) to give the answer 120?

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You can just divide the "answer" by consecutive positive integers, and when the result is 1, the last number you divided by is the number that the "answer" is factorial of. For example: 120 / 2 = 60, 60 / 3 = 20, 20 / 4 = 5, 5 / 5 = 1, so the number that 120 is the factorial of is 5.

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    $\begingroup$ This would probably be the simplest and quickest way to do it (maybe not by hand for large numbers). If at some stage, you divide by $k$ exactly, and at the next step you cannot divide by $k+1$ exactly, then, clearly, you do not have a factorial number. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 11:43
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    $\begingroup$ @digital-Ink Then I'd like to call these numbers perfect factorials. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 27, 2015 at 15:38

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