Factorialize a Number help

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


function factorialize(num) {
 for (let i = 1;num >= 1; num--) {
      i = num * i;
  }
  return i;
}

factorialize(5);

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-algorithm-scripting/factorialize-a-number/

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You did not ask a specific question, but because you declared i inside the for loop, i has not meaning outside of it. The let keyword creates a block scope, so inside the { } is where i has a value. If you declare i outside the for loop, then you could return i as you are trying to do now.

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