[Javascript - Factorialize a Number] Value from param is not a number?

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As I want to use the value num from the function’s paramater as a limit in my for loop, the console.log says that my loop is becoming infinite when I write

 for(i = 1; i <= num; i++) {
}

On the other had, if I hardcoe the number 5 in i <= 5; the loop works fine. This leads me to think num isn’t a valid number. Still console.log(num); does output the number 5. And console.log(Number(num)); also. Confusing…

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Can you post a screenshot of the code?

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Are you changing the value of ‘num’ inside the loop?

4

Here is the code:

function factorialize(num) { console.log(num); for (var i = 1; i <= num; i++) { console.log("num before calc: " + num); num *= num - 1; } return num; } factorialize(5);

… And yes, now I get it. I need to protect ‘num’ from the calculation if I want to use it as an evaluation. Otherwise the condition keeps changing and keeps on fueling the loop.

Thanks!

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Yes, don’t change value of num.
You need another variable, to keep track of the product.
and initialize this variable to 1, otherwise if it’s initialized to 0 (zero), then your final answer will always be 0.

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Got it working now :smiley: