From: Steve Taylor <staylor@uidaho.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Factorial function
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:59:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005d01c73f20$93d56e50$bb804af0$@edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C584854-A0BC-4926-A4E7-60620DF4D995@gmail.com>
This function does not terminate where you think it does. What is your base case?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of
> Lucas Holland
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: caml-list@inria.fr
> Subject: [Caml-list] Factorial function
>
> Hi, why does this function:
>
> let rec fact n =
> n * fact (n-1);;
>
> yield an overflow error if called with n = 5?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lucas
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 18:53 Lucas Holland
2007-01-23 18:59 ` Steve Taylor [this message]
2007-01-23 19:26 ` [Caml-list] " William D. Neumann
2007-01-23 20:12 ` Jonathan Roewen
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