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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Benchmarking the 532, 68030, MIPS, 386...at a Usenix!
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 20:39:33 EDT
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In article <826@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
...
>At last winter's Uniforum, I went around to a number of booths trying to
>run the infamous
>
>	/bin/time bc << !
>	2^4096
>	!
...

What exactly does this exercise (i.e., how does "dc" do "unlimited
precision arithmetic")?.  Why not run

	/bin/time dc << X
	2 4096 ^ p
	X

(possibly less overhead than the "bc" version but 4 more characters to type?)




Mike Khaw
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