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From: ereiamjh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Tom B. O'Toole)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: nbc - A New!, Improved! bc benchmark
Message-ID: <7226@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 90 20:17:10 GMT
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In article <115440001@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com> spuhler@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Tom Spuhler) writes:
>It's easy, it's fun.  Just type the following line on a system of your
>choice under the SAME (or as close as possible) conditions in which the
>system will normaly be used.
>
>      echo '2^9999/3^6308' |/bin/time bc
>
><Output is> 2
Okay,
On the system of my choice it took about .01 CPU seconds. But I didn't get
the same answer. I got:
%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
 \ECHO\
Is this due to round off error?

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