The Strong Factorial Conjecture of E. Edo and A. van den Essen [3] is concerned with the linear functional L on the space of complex polynomials defined by sending a monomial generator z1 1 · · · zn n to (a1!) · · · (an!). The conjecture asserts that for a non-zero multi-variable complex polynomial F , the maximum number of consecutive zeroes that may appear in the sequence {L(F ) : n ≥ 1} is N...

Although haikai no renga was central to the poetic practice of haikai poets throughout the Edo period, its status within the canon of Japanese literature has been problematic since Masaoka Shiki declared that it was not bungaku. 3 Although Shiki admitted that haikai no renga texts had “literary” elements, linked verse values change over unity so his final judgment was that it could not be consi...