RosettaCodeData/Task/Left-factorials/Perl/left-factorials.pl
2015-02-20 09:02:09 -05:00

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Perl

#!perl
use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use bigint;
sub leftfact {
my ($n) = @_;
state $cached = 0;
state $factorial = 1;
state $leftfact = 0;
if( $n < $cached ) {
($cached, $factorial, $leftfact) = (0, 1, 0);
}
while( $n > $cached ) {
$leftfact += $factorial;
$factorial *= ++$cached;
}
return $leftfact;
}
printf "!%d = %s\n", $_, leftfact($_) for 0 .. 10, map $_*10, 2..11;
printf "!%d has %d digits.\n", $_, length leftfact($_) for map $_*1000, 1..10;