Re: please i need explanation

From	kwakukwatiah@gmail.com
References	<2FB5A66FD91D456BBDFCC0AE25760392@favour> <50EFE1C3.5000303@nic.fi>
Subject	Re: please i need explanation
Date	2013-01-11 10:33 -0600
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.393.1357900426.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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-----Original Message----- 
From: K. Elo
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:56 AM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: please i need explanation

Hi!

Since there is no stated question, I need to guess:

n -= 1 (instead of "f -= 1")

should work.

Or maybe the question was a totally different one...

-Kimmo

11.01.2013 17:35, kwakukwatiah@gmail.com wrote:
> def factorial(n):
>      if n<2:
>               return 1
>      f = 1
>      while n>= 2:
>          f *= n
>          f -= 1
>      return f
>
>
>
please it works.but don’t get why the return 1 and the code below.

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Re: please i need explanation kwakukwatiah@gmail.com - 2013-01-11 10:33 -0600
  Re: please i need explanation Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-01-11 14:20 +0200
  Re: please i need explanation Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2013-01-11 13:58 +0100

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