C macro for factorial

Macro in C for computing the factorial of a number:

#include <stdio.h>

#define FACT(n) ((n <= 1) ? 1 : n * FACT(n-1))

int main() {

    int n = 5;

    int result = FACT(n);

    printf("Factorial of %d is %d\n", n, result);

    return 0;

}

Result:

Factorial of 5 is 120

Explanation:

In this example, the FACT macro with an argument n is defined that calls itself recursively to compute the factorial of n.

The ternary operator is used to check whether n is less than or equal to 1. If so, it returns 1, which is the base case of the recursive algorithm. If n is greater than 1, the macro multiplies n by the result of FACTORIAL(n-1), which computes the factorial of n-1.