Factorial Problems involving repeition

Hello, i have a little and maybe simple problem here..can somebody help me to solve my problem.. i appreciate it.. How to write a matlab code for factorial problem. for example;

E= 1!+2!+3!+....... until the calculation stops at 153. The program also gives/display how many times it has to do the addition until it get to 153.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What have you tried so far?

Answer 1

[Yatin]

Hi,

Below is the code. The value of " count " is the number of times the sum was carried out.

addition  = 0;
count = 0;
oldFact = 1;

while(addition < 153)

     newFact = (count+1)*oldFact;
     addition = addition + newFact;
     oldFact = newFact;
     count = count+1;
  end