Factorial in Lisp

Published on 01 October 2020 (Updated: 01 October 2020)

Welcome to the Factorial in Lisp page! Here, you'll find the source code for this program as well as a description of how the program works.

Current Solution

(defun factorial (n)
  (if (= n 0)
      1
      (* n (factorial (- n 1))) ) )

(defun maybe-pos-int (input)
  (cond
    ((null input) nil)
    ((string= input "") nil)
    ((every #'digit-char-p input) (parse-integer input))
    (t nil)))

(defparameter num (maybe-pos-int (cadr *posix-argv*)))
(cond
  ((null num) (write-line "Usage: please input a non-negative integer"))
  (t (print (factorial num)))
)

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Note: The solution shown above is the current solution in the Sample Programs repository as of Oct 11 2020 06:48:59. The solution was first committed on Oct 01 2020 17:40:32. As a result, documentation below may be outdated.

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