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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Numerical Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 780646, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/780646 Research Article Discrete Gamma (Factorial) Function and Its Series in Terms of a Generalized Difference Operator G. Britto Antony Xavier, V. Chandrasekar, S. U. Vasanthakumar, and B. Govindan Department of Mathematics, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur 635601, India Correspondence should be addressed to G. Britto Antony Xavier, shcbritto@yahoo.co.in Received 17 July 2012; Accepted 5 October 2012 Academic Editor: Rudiger Weiner ¨ Copyright q 2012 G. Britto Antony Xavier et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The recent theory and applications of difference operator ΔL introduced in M. Maria Susai Manuel et al., 2012 are enriched and extended with a useful tool Δ−m kne−k ||k for finding the m−1j values of various series of discrete gamma functions in number theory. Illustrative examples show the effectiveness of the obtained results in finding the values of various gamma series. 1. Introduction The fractional calculus involving gamma function is a generalization of differential calculus, allowing to define derivatives of real or complex order 1, 2. It is a mathematical subject that has proved to be very useful in applied fields such as economics, engineering, and physics 3–7. In 1989, Miller and Ross introduced the discrete analogue of the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative and proved some properties of the fractional difference operator 8. In the general fractional h-difference Rie