Python Program to Find the Factorial of a Number

What is factorial?

Factorial is a non-negative integer. It is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to that number you ask for factorial. It is denoted by an exclamation sign (!).

Example:

The factorial value of 4 is 24.

Note: The factorial value of 0 is 1 always. (Rule violation)

Example –

Output:

Enter a number: 10  The factorial of 10 is 3628800  

Explanation –

In the above example, we have declared a num variable that takes an integer as an input from the user. We declared a variable factorial and assigned 1. Then, we checked if the user enters the number less than one, then it returns the factorial does not exist for a negative number. If it returns false, then we check num is equal to zero, it returns false the control transfers to the else statement and prints the factorial of a given number.

Using Recursion

Python recursion is a method which calls itself. Let’s understand the following example.

Example –

Output:

Factorial of 5 is 120  

Explanation –

In the above code, we have used the recursion to find the factorial of a given number. We have defined the fact(num) function, which returns one if the entered value is 1 or 0 otherwise until we get the factorial of a given number.

Using built-in function

We will use the math module, which provides the built-in factorial() method. Let’s understand the following example.

Example –

Output:

Enter the number: 6  Factorial of 6 is 720  

We have imported the math module that has factorial() function. It takes an integer number to calculate the factorial. We don’t need to use logic.