Interesting code. Corrected a few errors, now it works. However fact(14) is less then fact(13).

for this, i did it with the following code (I have today, Friday 18 April 2008, 3 days coding in C)

#include
#include
#include

#define PI 3.14159265

int main()
{
int i,numero1,f=1;
printf("Number: ");
scanf("%lf", &numero1);
for(i = 1; i <= numero1; i++)
{
f *= i;
}
resultado = f;
printf(" %lf",resultado);

}

this is a very basic shortened and NON TESTED version of my working version.

I had to code a calculator for my first semester of university (Im getting a computer degree) for the signature Programming 1.

i think my function, may be a bit primitive, but works flawlessly.

regards,

JLChafardet

yet again, another function for finding the factorial of a number, this time recursive.

/* Funcion recursiva para calcular el factorial de un numero */
long long int factorial(long long int n)
{
     /* si n es menor que 0, retorna 0 (termina) */
     if (n < 0) return 0;
     /* o si no, n mayor a 1 retorna n por la funcion misma en n menos 1 */
     else if(n > 1) return n*factorial(n-1);
     /* retorna un valor para no terminar el programa. */
     return 1;
}

hope it helps

Just to be sure here that my code worked, i put up a little program and it does. here is the code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

long long int factorial(long long int n)
{
     /* si n es menor que 0, retorna 0 (termina) */
     if (n < 0) return 0;
     /* o si no, n mayor a 1 retorna n por la funcion misma en n menos 1 */
     else if(n > 1) return n*factorial(n-1);
     /* retorna un valor para no terminar el programa. */
     return 1;
}

int main() 
 {
long long int resultado2=0,numero=0;
              printf("\nIngrese El numero al que le quiere sacar el factorial.\n");
              printf("Numero:  ");
              /* Pide el valor para numero con scanf */
              scanf("%llu", &numero);
              resultado2=factorial(numero);
              printf("El resultado es %llu \n", resultado2);
   system("pause");
   return 0;
}

I just compiled it with Dev-C++ and worked like charm.

I hope this works for others here.

there always occur a prototype error msg in line 7 please clarify

The factorial function doesn't have a prototype in the program. My compiler wouldn't complain about this, since factorial() is above main(), but strictly speaking, it's bad form.

Does your compiler want another include file added to support long long int's?