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From: blambert@lotus.com (Brian Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.020445.12839@lotus.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 02:04:45 GMT
References: <9750@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Nov1.232830.17131@NCoast.ORG> <1990Nov3.220554.19404@zoo.toronto.edu> <226@smds.UUCP> <P1X6QN1@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: blambert@lotus.UUCP (Brian Lambert)
Organization: Lotus Development Corp.
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In article <P1X6QN1@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <226@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>> 	for (y=x,sqrtx=1;y>0;) {ysave = y;y =/ 16;sqrtx =* 4;}
>
>Wow.
>
>This man has been programming in C for a *long* time. I'm impressed.
>
>(quiz: why do I come to this conclusion?)
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
>+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
>peter@ferranti.com

It's because programs that take up fewer lines of vertical space also
consume less CPU time.

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Brian Lambert
Lotus Development Corporation 
blambert@lotus.com
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Brian Lambert
Lotus Development Corporation