From a638f4bd2474453313d9965f9b4213b825037725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: techieAgnostic <s@p7.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:48:22 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] week3

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 week3/assignment_3a.hoon | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 week3/week3.hoon         |  8 ++++++++
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diff --git a/week3/assignment_3a.hoon b/week3/assignment_3a.hoon
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+:: Hoon 101: Assignment 3a. Comment each line of code to tell the reader what the code is doing.
+:: Comments should be written as "breathing comments" as suggested in the Hoon Style Guide: https://urbit.org/docs/learn/hoon/style/
+
+:: create a gate, with the sample @ud, given the face n
+::
+|=  n=@ud
+:: attach a 't' faced @ud to the subject, with the value 1
+::
+=/  t=@ud  1
+:: create and execute a gate, such that we can recurse back to this point
+::
+|-
+:: if n is 1, return the next child, otherwise the one after
+::
+?:  =(n 1)
+:: at the end, return our total
+::
+    t
+:: otherwise recurse with n minus one,
+:: and t multiplied by n. note t is
+:: not reset with the recurse, as it
+:: is attached before our recurse point
+::
+$(n (dec n), t (mul t n))
diff --git a/week3/week3.hoon b/week3/week3.hoon
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+|=  a=(list *)
+=/  n=@ud  3
+|-
+?~  a  ~
+?:  =(1 n)
+  i.a
+$(n (dec n), a t.a)
+