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* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Abhijeet D Mhatre wrote:
> I was experimenting with a common c factorial problem
> when I got a totally unexpected result.
unexpected?
> # include <stdio.h>
> main(){
return type defaults to int
> int fact;
> int x;
> fact=factorial(6);
> printf ("%i\n",fff());
so where is the statement that returns an int?
> }
>
>
> int factorial(int x){
> if(x>1) return(x*factorial(x-1));
what happens if x<=1? what is the return value then?
> }
>
> int fff () {
> ;
> }
and what is this supposed to return? the printf will print the return
value of this function, but this function doesn't return anything.
> Naturally I was expecting 1 as the answer. But I am getting the answer
> 720 which is 6!.
pray tell us why you expected this so naturally.
Philip
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