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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} factorial (@var{n})
## Return the factorial of @var{n} where @var{n} is a positive integer.  If
## @var{n} is a scalar, this is equivalent to @code{prod (1:@var{n})}.  For
## vector or matrix arguments, return the factorial of each element in the
## array.  For non-integers see the generalized factorial function
## @code{gamma}.
## @seealso{prod, gamma}
## @end deftypefn

function x = factorial (n)
  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  elseif (any (n(:) < 0 | n(:) != round (n(:))))
    error ("factorial: N must all be nonnegative integers");
  endif
  x = round (gamma (n+1));
endfunction

%!assert (factorial(5), prod(1:5))
%!assert (factorial([1,2;3,4]), [1,2;6,24])
%!assert (factorial(70), exp(sum(log(1:70))), -128*eps)
%!fail ('factorial(5.5)', "must all be nonnegative integers")
%!fail ('factorial(-3)', "must all be nonnegative integers")