Right now I'm trying to teach myself Java and I came across this piece of code showing factorials.(https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~scottm/cs307/javacode/codeSamples/Factorial.java)
It runs fine showing factorials up to 12 but I don't quite understand how it runs. I understand most of it up until "result *= i;"
I can't find anywhere that shows that *= does.
result *= i; is equivalent to result = result * i;
it assigns the value of result * i to the variable result. It's easier to write and read than the latter.
Thanks for the help. I forget that it's called a for "loop" and will keep multiplying until it reaches whatever number n is.
If you were wondering that's called a compound assignment operator, and there are a few of them. I'm going to use i and n as variables just for explanations sake. i += n (i = i + n), i -= n( i = i - n),i *= n (i = i * n), see the pattern going here? You can find more operators here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html
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