Sunday, January 21, 2018

[Bioinformatics 101] 006. while loop



Hello! This is Kenneth J Han!

In this post, we are going to look at while loop.




006. WHILE Loop

Problem

Using WHILE Loop, calculate 5! (factorial) .

Pseudocode

num ← 5
result ← 1

WHILE num > 0
    result ← result * num
    num ← num - 1

PRINT result

Answer

120


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