Program to calculate factorials

OK, I know that this will seem a pitifully stupid question to anyone with any programming knowledge, but here goes anyway.

I'm new to C++ and I need to write a program to calculate factorials from an integer input. It's not so much a language difficulty with C++ as a logical problem.

Beginning with a factor of 1, I need a loop which multiplies the user input number by the factor, adds 1 to the factor, then multiplies the previous result by the new factor, continuing until the factor=(starting number - 1). Can anyone help?

is this what u mean:

int factorial (int number)
{
if(number > 1) return (number * factorial(number - 1));
else return 1;
}

That should work.