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From: crossgl@ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
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Date: 9 Mar 89 22:24:55 GMT
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In article <6619@saturn.ucsc.edu> kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post) writes:
>
>I have 91 now but am not sure about portability of main(n,m) and printf.
>
>main(n,m){scanf("%d\n",&m);while(m>1&m<10)n*=m--;
>printf(m-1?"error\n":"answer is %d\n",n);}

Interesting BUT:  this does NOT behave the same way as the original program
in all cases!!  Try running the original and your versions using:

silly 5
2

The original yields:  answer is 2
Yours yields:         answer is 4
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