factorial

Computes the factorial of the given value. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see factorial function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.factorial(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	a column to calculate factorial for.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: factorial of given value.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(10).select("*", dbf.factorial('id')).show()

+---+-------------+
| id|factorial(id)|
+---+-------------+
|  0|            1|
|  1|            1|
|  2|            2|
|  3|            6|
|  4|           24|
|  5|          120|
|  6|          720|
|  7|         5040|
|  8|        40320|
|  9|       362880|
+---+-------------+