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From: grt@hocda.UUCP (G.TOMASEVICH)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: IBM 1620 again and bc(1)
Message-ID: <425@hocda.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 14:11:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: hocda.425
Posted: Thu May  3 14:11:23 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 04:38:44 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Someone just quoted me here.  I goofed, it must have been a 10000-digit
add that I did.  Consider the time and the size of such a product!  Anyway,
a friend did a factorial program that grew the number as needed.  He
checked it with 99! and 100! by comparing the typeouts.  That would make
a neat UNIX exercise:  Run the program twice with redirected output
and compare the two files.  Maybe someone could do it with 'bc(1)'.  Now I
know where that name comes from: 'bc' emulates antideluvian architectures.
	George Tomasevich, AT&T Bell Laboratories