From: "Dário Abdulrehman" <drehman31@gmail.com>
To: "Lucas Holland" <hollandlucas@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Simple factorial
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:11:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6aeedf580701231111r32503ee5te3a01e6100a1b1aa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E3A2218-5AA0-445F-A37D-B12EF4A2F9CB@gmail.com>
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Hi,
Join http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/ .
The yahoo list is more appropriate for beginner questions (I am a beginner
too).
Anyway, whatever the programming language you are using, you need to define
a base case for recursion...
On 1/23/07, Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just started learning O'Caml. I've written a simple factorial
> function (no checking whether n is 1 etc.):
>
> let rec factorial n =
> n * factorial (n-1);;
>
> When I call this function with let's say 5 as an argument, I get an
> overflow error message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> chell
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-24 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 18:50 Lucas Holland
2007-01-23 19:04 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-23 19:10 ` robert
2007-01-23 19:11 ` Dário Abdulrehman [this message]
2007-01-23 19:50 ` Till Varoquaux
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