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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Factorial of any number using functions Post 302512330 by alister on Saturday 9th of April 2011 01:31:54 PM
Old 04-09-2011
Code:
#!/bin/sh

factorial() {
        printf '%d %s\n' $1 '1sA [q]sB [d1!<BdlA*sA1-lFx]sF lFx lAp' | dc
}

factorial $1

Regards,
Alister
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Moose::Autobox::Code(3) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Moose::Autobox::Code(3)

NAME
Moose::Autobox::Code - the Code role SYNOPOSIS
use Moose::Autobox; my $adder = sub { $_[0] + $_[1] }; my $add_2 = $adder->curry(2); $add_2->(2); # returns 4 # create a recursive subroutine # using the Y combinator *factorial = sub { my $f = shift; sub { my $n = shift; return 1 if $n < 2; return $n * $f->($n - 1); } }->y; factorial(10) # returns 3628800 DESCRIPTION
This is a role to describe operations on the Code type. METHODS
curry (@values) rcurry (@values) conjoin (&sub) disjoin (&sub) compose (@subs) This will take a list of @subs and compose them all into a single subroutine where the output of one sub will be the input of another. y This implements the Y combinator. u This implements the U combinator. meta SEE ALSO
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator> <http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/20469> BUGS
All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT. AUTHOR
Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2006-2008 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. <http://www.iinteractive.com> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.18.2 2013-10-27 Moose::Autobox::Code(3)
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