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Add Two Ways To Compute Factorial as a postgres til.
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- [Truncate All Rows](postgres/truncate-all-rows.md)
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- [Truncate Tables With Dependents](postgres/truncate-tables-with-dependents.md)
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- [Turning Timing On](postgres/turning-timing-on.md)
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- [Two Ways To Compute Factorial](postgres/two-ways-to-compute-factorial.md)
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- [Types By Category](postgres/types-by-category.md)
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- [Use A psqlrc File For Common Settings](postgres/use-a-psqlrc-file-for-common-settings.md)
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- [Use Argument Indexes](postgres/use-argument-indexes.md)
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# Two Ways To Compute Factorial
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In PostgreSQL, there are two ways to compute the factorial of a number.
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There is a prefix operator and a postfix operator. The prefix operator is
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`!!` and can be used like so:
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```sql
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> select 5!;
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?column?
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120
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```
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The postfix operator is `!` and can be used like so:
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```sql
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> select !!5;
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?column?
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----------
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120
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```
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See the [arithmetic function
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docs](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7866353/git-list-all-available-commands)
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for more details.
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