[Tutor] For Loops Program Issue

[John Weller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+john=johnweller.co.uk at python.org> On Behalf Of
eric
> grunfeld
> Sent: 18 August 2020 16:17
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> Subject: [Tutor] For Loops Program Issue
> 
> Good Morning Everyone:
> 
> I am currently taking a beginners Python course that is being taught by
Google, on
> the Coursera platform.
> 
> I have been working on a problem but I seem to be obtaining an error
message
> after running the program.
> 
> Here is the problem:
> 
> def factorial(n):
>     result = 1
>     for i in range(result,n):
>         result = result * n+1
>     return result

Should be          result = result * i
Range should be n+1

> print(factorial(4)) # should return 24
> print(factorial(5)) # should return 120:
> 
> Here is the the error message that I have been receiving:
> 
> Here is your output:
> 85
> 781
> 
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John Weller
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