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// The Y combinator, applied to the factorial function
// Return the function that is the fixed point of f.
var Y = f => (x => f(v => x(x)(v)))
(x => f(v => x(x)(v)));
// The factorial function is the fixed point of this:
var f = fac => n => (n <= 1) ? 1 : n * fac(n - 1);
print("5! is " + Y(f)(5));