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From: Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@gmail.com>
Subject: Simple factorial
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:50:51 +0100
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Hello,

I've just started learning O'Caml. I've written a simple factorial  
function (no checking whether n is 1 etc.):

let rec factorial n =
	n * factorial (n-1);;

When I call this function with let's say 5 as an argument, I get an  
overflow error message.

Any ideas?

chell