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1 ## Copyright (C) 2000-2015 Paul Kienzle
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {} {} factorial (@var{n})
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21 ## Return the factorial of @var{n} where @var{n} is a real non-negative
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22 ## integer.
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23 ##
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24 ## If @var{n} is a scalar, this is equivalent to @code{prod (1:@var{n})}. For
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25 ## vector or matrix arguments, return the factorial of each element in the
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26 ## array.
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27 ##
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28 ## For non-integers see the generalized factorial function @code{gamma}.
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29 ## Note that the factorial function grows large quite quickly, and even
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30 ## with double precision values overflow will occur if @var{n} > 171. For
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31 ## such cases consider @code{gammaln}.
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32 ## @seealso{prod, gamma, gammaln}
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33 ## @end deftypefn
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35 function x = factorial (n)
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37 if (nargin != 1)
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38 print_usage ();
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39 elseif (! isreal (n) || any (n(:) < 0 | n(:) != fix (n(:))))
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40 error ("factorial: all N must be real non-negative integers");
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41 endif
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43 x = round (gamma (n+1));
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45 ## FIXME: Matlab returns an output of the same type as the input.
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46 ## This doesn't seem particularly worth copying--for example uint8 would
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47 ## saturate for n > 5. If desired, however, the following code could be
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48 ## uncommented.
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49 # if (! isfloat (x))
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51 # endif
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56 %!assert (factorial (5), prod (1:5))
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57 %!assert (factorial ([1,2;3,4]), [1,2;6,24])
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58 %!assert (factorial (70), exp (sum (log (1:70))), -128*eps)
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59 %!assert (factorial (0), 1)
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61 %!error factorial ()
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62 %!error factorial (1,2)
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63 %!error <must be real non-negative integers> factorial (2i)
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64 %!error <must be real non-negative integers> factorial (-3)
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65 %!error <must be real non-negative integers> factorial (5.5)
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