Thread: Factorial calc program not running!

Hello, I am very new to C, I was making an experiment after reading the C tutorial on the site up until the "Loops" section. I've made a program which I can compile but which doesn't return any result. The code is as follows:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>


int main(){
    int num1;
    int fact = 1;
    int x;
    printf ("Insert the number whose factorial you want to know: \n");
    scanf ("%d", &num1);
    for ( x=1; x <= num1; x++ ){
        fact = fact*x;
        scanf("%d", &fact);
    }
    printf ("The factorial of %d is %d \n", num1, fact );
    return(0);
}

I'd appreciate if someone could have a look at it and possibly tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you very much in advance!

Code:

    for ( x=1; x <= num1; x++ ){
        fact = fact*x;
        scanf("%d", &fact);
    }

Why are you scanning for fact in that loop? scanf means "ask the user for specifically formatted input".


Quzah.

Why are you scanf'ing fact inside the loop?