On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Donnchadh [iso-8859-1] O Donnabhain wrote:
> "John P . Looney" wrote:
> >
> > Check this out.
> >
> > Into umb-scheme, type:
> >
> > (define (factorial number)(if (= number 0) 1 (* number (factorial (- number 1)))))
> >
> > then:
> >
> > (factorial 5500)
> >
> > How easy would it be to write a tcl, C or C++ function to get the
> > factorial of 5500 ? Scheme rocks!
>> int factorial(int number){ if (number == 0) return 1; else return
> number*factorial(number-1);}
OR
int factorial(int number){ return (number ? number*factorial(number-1) : 1);}
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