Question

Hi
this is a factorial method but it prints 0 in the console please help me thanks

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Demo obj = new Demo();
        System.out.println(obj.factorial(500));
    }

    public int factorial(int n) {
        int fact = 1;

        for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
            fact= fact*i;
        }
        return fact;
    }

EDITED:will return Infinity!

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Demo obj = new Demo();
        System.out.println(obj.factorial(500));
    }

    public double  factorial(long n) {
       double fact = 1;

        for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
            fact= fact*i;
        }
        return fact;
    }
}

Answer 1

Since 500! equals 1220136825991110068701238785423046926253574342803192842192413588385845373153881997605496447502203281863013616477148203584163378722078177200480785205159329285477907571939330603772960859086270429174547882424912726344305670173270769461062802310452644218878789465754777149863494367781037644274033827365397471386477878495438489595537537990423241061271326984327745715546309977202781014561081188373709531016356324432987029563896628911658974769572087926928871281780070265174507768410719624390394322536422605234945850129918571501248706961568141625359056693423813008856249246891564126775654481886506593847951775360894005745238940335798476363944905313062323749066445048824665075946735862074637925184200459369692981022263971952597190945217823331756934581508552332820762820023402626907898342451712006207714640979456116127629145951237229913340169552363850942885592018727433795173014586357570828355780158735432768888680120399882384702151467605445407663535984174430480128938313896881639487469658817504506926365338175055478128640000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 you can’t fit it into an int (which ranges up to 2147483647).

• Using an int you can only store up to 12!.
• Using a long you’ll get up to 20!
• Using a double you’ll get up to 170!.
• By convention 0! equals 1;

Here is a solution using BigInteger:

public static BigInteger factorial(int i) {
    if (i == 0) {
        return BigInteger.ONE;
    }
    BigInteger n = BigInteger.valueOf(i);
    while (--i > 0) {
        n = n.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(i));
    }
    return n;
}