Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ingr!crossgl
From: crossgl@ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re:  (silly challenge); Can you beat this?
Message-ID: <4412@ingr.com>
Date: 14 Mar 89 16:38:32 GMT
References: <37433@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <37433@think.UUCP> gordon@think.com (gordon linoff) writes:
}
}I wish I could take credit for this, but it is now down to 83 characters
}(84 with the trailing newline).
}
}And this is it . . .
}
}	main(y,x){for(scanf("%d",&x);--x%9;y*=x+1);
}	printf(x?"error\n":"answer is %d\n",y);}

Several people have made a similiar error in duplicating the "silly" program.
The challenge was that the original program and the new one behave EXACTLY
the same.  The example above fails to yield the correct answer if invoked
with arguments on the command line whereas the original program did...
Try it!
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