well as i was reading last night about c++ i came across a program to find a factorial-- and it dident desribe it in a way i could understand ... all i really got out of it is its something to do with multiplication. if someone could tell me what this is it would be great, but its not urgent or anything id just like to know

!n, or the factorial of n, is n multiplied by all the positive integers less than n.

So !4 would be 4*3*2*1 or 24
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oh ok now that makes sense , thanks :) i wonder why they couldent have made it that simple in the book? :blink:

Maybe they assumed that you would already know that. :unsure:

yeah that could be... after all the book im using is made for a collage course.