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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:21:51 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: recursive factorial
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At 11:53 PM 2/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>The problem line:
>>    return passed *  rcs_factorial(--passed);

>To make this code work:
>return passed *  rcs_factorial(passed-1);

This might also work. :-)
return (++passed) *  rcs_factorial(--passed);

I don't recommend it though. :-)

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