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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming puzzle (silly)
Message-ID: <2821@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 21:50:17 GMT
References: <28336@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <28336@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by klier@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Klier):
> 
> ***********************
> main(m,n){scanf("%d",&n);for(m=n>0^n>9;n&&m*=n--;);
> printf(m?"Answer=%d\n":"error\n",m);}
> ***********************
> 
> with help from Jeff Conroy (jmconroy@ernie.Berkeley.EDU)
>  

Awesome. Truely awesome.

I don't think this entry will be surpassed.

By the way, this looks a little like some of the code in the original
4.2BSD Pascal compiler.