I am trying to learn clojure by learning the programing by example
open wiki book.  For an excercise demonstrating iteration they give
the following example:

(defn factorial
    ([n]
        (factorial n 1))
    ([n acc]
        (if  (= n 0)   acc
             (recur (dec n) (* acc n)))))


first I don't understand how acc ever gets an initial value?

also  the arguments to the function are a list and not a vector?

why is the vector [n acc] on a line by itself?

This function is very confusing to me!!  thanks for any help!!

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