cnt prefix in java?

Im just wondering what cnt means? A java trainer I am working on put it in the answer to a puzzle that I was working on, and i dont know what it means..

static int factorial(int n)
{
int cnt = 2;
int fact = 1;
while(cnt <= n)
{
fact *= cnt;
cnt++;
}
return fact;
}

any help would be appreciated. thanks.

it looks like it is just the name of the integer

the 'int' specifies the data type of the variable - integer
the 'cnt' is the name of it
then you set the value to the variable

its the same with int fact - its just the variable name

Hope this helps

thanks a lot for clearing that up.

Yup, as anarchy said, i'd imagine cnt is a short way of saying count since you're incrementing every time you iterate through the while loop :)