Hello, I know that Julia has a function called factorial. I have written a program as follows to do this: function fact(a) F = 1 for n = 1 : (a - 1) F = F * (n + 1) println(F) end end Is it OK? Thank you.

[image] hack3rcon: Is it OK? It’s a clear for loop in a concise method, keep doing that in general. What’s worth working on is the starting value; others have mentioned it, but I have more thoughts on it. F=1 starts with a Int64. The type of the elements n = 1 : (a-1) will depend on a, so the…

[image] hack3rcon: Is it OK? In what sense? What do you want to achieve? What should be critiqued? A couple of things I notice: typically variable names start with a lowercase letter and only typenames are capitalized your function does not return the value but only prints it to stdout his…

Factorial program

New to Julia

stevengj November 24, 2024, 12:05pm 3

From @hack3rcon’s previous post (Questions about a starting language, is Julia good (enough)), they are just learning how to program for the first time and want pedagogical feedback.

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Factorial program

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