Problem 1749. Factorial !

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Frequency Domain on 25 Jul 2013

I dont understand what you wanted to do with your test no.4. why dont you just check our answer against the actual factorial, instead of hard coding (truncated) numbers?

Marcel on 3 Jan 2014

testcase is nok:
6.6895e+198==factorial(120)
ans =
0

Björn on 11 Dec 2015

Use if statement for test 4...

Dyuman Joshi on 8 Mar 2021

Faulty test case has been corrected. Those who have solved with respect to the rounded test case kindly solve the question again. It's a fairly simple one!

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B. C. on 5 Dec 2014

fail for x=120?! 'isequal(factorial(120),y)' gives me 0...

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Neeraj Badamikar on 5 May 2014

My solution works in Matlab, but fails the last test here.. :(

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Swapnali Gujar on 10 Aug 2013

I am trying to solve this problem and first 2 test cases are passed, but assertion is failing for last test case. I also used the format as 'short eng', here the y_correct is read by Matlab as '6.689500000000000e+198', but my program is calculating answer as '6.689502913449124e+198' for x = 120 and thats why its failing. Any suggestions ?

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Ramy Mohamed on 31 Jul 2013

There is something wrong with the last test; The number are truncated. y_correct should be 6.689502913449135e+198; while in the test it is given as 6.689500000000000e+198

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Jan Orwat on 26 Jul 2013

fake solution, it works until there is a mistake in test 4

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Mohammed Manna on 26 Jul 2013

I KNOW THIS SOLUTION IS CORRECT....STUPID IDE IS NOT ACCEPTING IT....YOU CAN RUN IT ON A STANDALONE MATLAB AND SEE IF IT WORKS!

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Tobias Schäfer on 26 Jul 2013

Nice solution for that rounding problem.

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Evan on 25 Jul 2013

There should be a test in the test suite to catch any uses of "factorial" in the submitted code, as is done here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/498-find-the-kronecker-tensor-product-without-using-kron

Also, is the convention here to round to five significant digits? If so, this should probably be noted in the problem statement.

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