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Tip revision: 1c18d06925f1faef679e20f822ecabef2be57bd7 authored by Wes Kocher on 28 February 2014, 01:08:04 UTC
Merge b2g-inbound to m-c
Tip revision: 1c18d06
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.
var Y = f => (x => f(v => x(x)(v)))
             (x => f(v => x(x)(v)));

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

print("5! is " + Y(f)(5));
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