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From: pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
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Date: 11 Mar 89 02:44:00 GMT
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In an article by kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu 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);}

Well, the code I ran the code through wc and it came out to be 92 chars.
Still, it is a nice piece of code.  However, the following modifications make
the same code only 89 chars.



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

Of course, you need to delete the newline after the first line.  The code 
could further be optimized by getting rid of the extra "\n" after error and 
answer which would make it 85.


Heeren Pathak
s.cs.uiuc.edu
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu