Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!buengc!bph
From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
Message-ID: <2224@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 89 18:01:41 GMT
References: <2102@jasper.UUCP> <2128@laidbak.UUCP> <6639@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Distribution: na
Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng.
Lines: 16

In article <6639@saturn.ucsc.edu> kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post) writes:
>>> Can anyone beat [98 characters]?
>
>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);}

It must have been a "me and my ftp" problem again, but the manual page
for this program seems to have elided my grasp.  Could someone mail
me one?

				--Blair
				  "I.e., 'compiles fine,
				   but what does it do?'"
				   8-0 :-| |-) %-D