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Tip revision: 78d17b06b04f2b76bcb6e3e2a553f4ad0202bc8d authored by Nika Layzell on 19 May 2022, 21:51:15 UTC
Bug 1770137 - Part 2, r=Gijs, a=dsmith
Tip revision: 78d17b0
Y.js
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

// The Y combinator, applied to the factorial function.

// Return the function that is the fixed point of f.
const Y = f => (x => f(v => x(x)(v)))
               (x => f(v => x(x)(v)));

// The factorial function is the fixed point of this:
const f = fac => n => (n <= 1) ? 1 : n * fac(n - 1);

print(`5! is ${Y(f)(5)}`);
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