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From: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
Message-ID: <6639@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 02:28:29 GMT
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In article <2128@laidbak.UUCP> daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
>> Can anyone beat [98 characters]?
>
>We got down to 103 characters, "portably".
>On a Sun, I got 96 characters - but this is implementation dependent.
>-- 

Count this:

main(n,m){for(scanf("%d",&m);m>1&m<10;n*=m--);
printf(m-1?"error\n":"answer is %d\n",n);}
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