Factorial program in c using for loop, while loop and function.

By : Milon

On : 4:07 PM

Wikipedia define factorial as following

In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n.

Math is Fun gives the following definition

The factorial function (symbol: !) means to multiply a series of descending natural numbers.

Example
4! = 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24
7! = 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 5040
1! = 1 0! = 1, because the following reason.

We can rearrange one thing only one way, as 0 is also an entity so we can rearrange it in one way.
Also we can prove it mathematically with the help of Combination
Let us consider n is the number of different people, if we choose a team consisting with n people then we can only choose it one time, so

Now lets start coding using for loop

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){

    int n,i;
    float fact=1;
    printf("Enter your n\n");
    scanf("%d",&n);
    
    if(n <0 ) printf("\aPlease enter a positive number\n");
    else if((n == 1) || (n == 0)){
        printf("\aThe factorial is 1\n");
    }
   else{
            for(i=1;i<=n;i++){
            fact =fact*i;
            }
        printf("\aThe factorial is %.2f\n",fact);
       }

    return 0;
}

Using while loop

#include<stdio.h>

int main(){

    int n,i=1;
    float fact=1;
    printf("Enter your n\n");
    scanf("%d",&n);
    if(n <0 ) printf("\aPlease enter a positive number\n");
    else if((n == 1) || (n == 0)){
        printf("\aThe factorial is 1\n");
    }
   else{
           while(i<=n){
            fact =fact*i;
                i++;
            }
          printf("\aThe factorial is %.2f\n",fact);
       }

    return 0;
}

Using user defined function

#include<stdio.h>

float factorial( int n){
    if((n == 1) || (n == 0) ) return 1;
    else return n*factorial(n-1);
}

int main(){

    int n;
    printf("Enter your n\n");
    scanf("%d",&n);
    if(n <0 ) printf("\aPlease enter a positive number\n");
    else  printf("\aThe factorial is %.2f\n",factorial(n));

    return 0;
}