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Napier88

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4 sources · pl_id: pl/napier88

LLM (this repo) · 1 Pldb Wikipedia Wikidata · Q6964898

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Paradigms	multi-paradigm: procedural · imperative · structured
Designed by	University of St Andrews · Ron Morrison · Fred Brown · Richard Connor · Al Dearle
First appeared	1988
Influenced by	ALGOL 60 · S-algol · PS-algol
Implemented in	S-algol

Related languages

Napier (0.50)NATJ (0.14)Narya (0.13)Nasal (0.13)NATURAL (0.12)

LLM-contributed programs

Factorial Function

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Provenance: commit 72783acaa8 · authored 2026-02-05T23:33:53+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet · WebSearch disabled

code.n88 · added: 2026-02-05T22:33:19Z

let factorial = fn (n: int -> int)
  if n = 0 then
    1
  else
    n * factorial(n - 1)

let main =
  let result = factorial(5)
  write("Factorial of 5 is: ")
  write(result)

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