C program to find factorial of a number using function

by Krishna

Posted on 27 Jul 2018 Category: C Views: 2922

C program to find factorial of a number

Below shows the C program to find factorial of a number using function.

#include <stdio.h>
 
long factorial(int);
 
int main()
{
  int number;
  long fact = 1;
 
  printf("Enter a number :");
  scanf("%d", &number);
 
  printf("Factorial of %d = %ld\n", number, factorial(number));
 
  return 0;
}
 
long factorial(int n)
{
  int c;
  long result = 1;
 
  for (c = 1; c <= n; c++)
    result = result * c;
 
  return result;
}

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