[Tutor] factorial

[Jeff Shannon]

cino hilliard wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Jeff,
>
> I was taking the easyway out and thus doing more work on the import 
> function.
>
> The power ^ idea comes from my use of basic, Pari etc. We were able to 
> do it in BCX which the
> moderator held out for a long time but clever users perfected the 
> code. Then,I guess asking that
> Fortran start using ^ vs ** would be pretty much uh? Thanks for you 
> advice.


I think that it's really C's fault.  C started using ^ as a bitwise XOR 
operator, and Python borrowed that usage from there.  

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International