Calculate the Factorial of an Integer in C#

Andrew Rissing

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Oct 4, 2011

CPOL

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Or you could just go the other direction and cache the known results ahead of time. You're only looking at 13 numbers in all, so it is not a big memory hog to just store those known values inside of the method and be done with it.static uint Factorial(uint x){ if (x > 12) throw...

static uint Factorial(uint x)
{
  if (x > 12)
    throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate a factorial for numbers larger than 12");
  return _factorials[x];
}
static readonly uint[] _factorials = new uint[13] { 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, 40320, 362880, 3628800, 39916800, 479001600 };