7/7/2014 C program to Calculate Factorial of a Number Using Recursion

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C program to Calculate Factorial of a Number Using

Recursion

This program takes a positive integer from user and calculates the factorial of that number. Instead
of loops to calculate factorial, this program uses recursive function to calculate the factorial of a
number.
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/* Source code to find factorial of a number. */

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#include<stdio.h>
int factorial(int n);
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{
int n;
printf("Enter an positive integer: ");
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printf("Factorial of %d = %ld", n, factorial(n));
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}
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{
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if(n!=1)
return n*factorial(n-1);
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}
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Enter an positive integer: 6

Factorial of 6 = 720

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