Answer to Question #257483 in Python for Yeri

Question

For those of you who may not now, a factorial is a product of multiplying from 1 until the number. Now, you must make a program that will accept an integer and then print out its factorial using loops.

Are you up for this task?

Instructions:

1. Input a positive integer.
2. Using a for() loop, generate the factorial value of the integer and print out the result.
3. Tip #1: Factorials work like this: Factorial of 5 = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5
4. Tip #2: There's a special case in factorials. The factorial of 0 is 1.

Input

A line containing an integer.

5

Output

A line containing an integer.

120

Answer 1

def fact(num):
 if num == 0:
  return 1
 else:
  return num * fact(num-1)
num=int(input("Enter a number: "))
print("Factorial is: ",fact(num))