pyspark.sql.functions.factorial

pyspark.sql.functions.factorial(col)

Computes the factorial of the given value.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

a column to calculate factorial for.

Returns

Column

factorial of given value.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([(5,)], ['n'])
>>> df.select(factorial(df.n).alias('f')).collect()
[Row(f=120)]