Re: The dictionary definition of recursion

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From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:28

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On 04/06/2018 17:16, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> Recursion : see  recursion.
> 
> As a recursive "elegant" solution,
> 
> factorial (1,000,000) is likely to
> crash most systems

Factorial is a simple loop.

10 INPUT N
20 LET F = 1
30 FOR I = 1 TO N
40     F = F * I
50 NEXT I
60 PRINT N,"! is ",F

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