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From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton)
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Subject: Re: # to the nth power
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Date: 8 Nov 90 09:56:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 5 Nov 90 21:40:45 GMT



Peter da Silva - peter@ferranti.com sez:

>> 	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?)
Is it because he's using the old, crufty, archaic form of =/ and =* instead of
/= and *= ?

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