Recursion
Gerhard Häring
gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de
Mon Jan 1 16:37:46 EST 2001
The highest value that works for me (Python 2.0/Linux x86) is 999L. Adding L
to a number makes it of type 'long' instead of type 'int'. Perhaps Perl and
Ruby do automatically use long when necessary.
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 15:54:13 -0500, Bob Calco <rcalco at cortechs.com> wrote:
>PYTHON
>======
>import sys
>
>def factor(n):
> if n == 1:
> return 1
> else:
> return n*factor(n-1)
>
>print factor(int(sys.argv[1]))
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