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Re: puzzle with string permutations [photo]


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: puzzle with string permutations [photo]
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:58:59 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> (calc-eval "fact(5)") => "120"
>> (calc-eval "fact(10)") => "3628800"
>
> Indeed, however that isn't lispy either ...

(defun faculty (n)
  (if (> n 1)
      (* n (faculty (1- n)))
    1) )
;; (faculty  5) ;       120
;; (faculty 10) ; 3 628 800

(defun string-perms-num (str)
  (faculty (length str) ))
;; (string-perms-num "kudce") ; 120

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