How do I find a factorial? [closed]

Answer 1

For large numbers you probably can get away with an approximate solution, which tgamma gives you (n! = Gamma(n+1)) from math.h. If you want even larger numbers, they won't fit in a double, so you should use lgamma (natural log of the gamma function) instead.

If you're working somewhere without a full C99 math.h, you can easily do this type of thing yourself:

double logfactorial(int n) {
  double fac = 0.0;
  for ( ; n>1 ; n--) fac += log(fac);
  return fac;
}