What does this expression mean?

f==0?1:f*fact(f-1)

The expression condition ? then_expression : else_expression evaluates to the result of then_expression if condition evaluates to true and to else_expression otherwise.

So the above expression evaluates to 1 if f is 0 and to f * fact(f-1) otherwise.

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