need help with recursion

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  1. sa819

    sa819 New Member

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    Is there any way to use recursion in C to calculate the factorials of numbers above 15?
    I made a simple program but it can calculate the values satisfactorily only for numbers from one to fifteen.
     
  2. Salem

    Salem New Member

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    Please don't PM me for 1:1 support.
    1. Post your code.

    2. Don't forget the code tags, ie [code][/code] placed around your code.

    3. 16! = 20922789888000. Depending on your data types (int, long, float, double), you could well be experiencing either numeric overflow, or loss of precision. Coping with either of them is no easy task.
     

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