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You wrote a program to find the factorial of a number. In mathematics, the factorial operation is used for positive integers and zero.
What does the function return if the user enters a negative three?
def factorial number):
product = 1
while number > 0
product = product number
number = number - 1
return product
strNum = input("Enter a positive integer")
num = int(str Num)
print(factorial(num))
O-6
O-3
O There is no output due to a runtime error.
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Answer 1

The function will output positive 1 to the console. This happens because we declare product as 1 inside our function and that value never changes because the while loop only works if the number is greater than 0.