On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:06:45PM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote:
> On 03 Dec 2001 01:43:57PM +0800, fooler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>
> > iterative:
> > double factorial;
> > if (n < 2) {
> > factorial = 1;
> > }else {
> > for (factorial = n ; n != 2; factorial = factorial * --n);
> > }
>
> I don't know about you, but I'd have written the iterative factorial as:
>
> int factorial = 1;
> for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
> factorial *= i;
>
> cleaner, you think? ;)
Why bother with i==1?
:)
Michael
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