programming challenge (silly)

Kjell Post kjell at saturn.ucsc.edu
Thu Mar 9 12:28:29 AEST 1989


In article <2128 at laidbak.UUCP> daveb at laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
>> Can anyone beat [98 characters]?
>
>We got down to 103 characters, "portably".
>On a Sun, I got 96 characters - but this is implementation dependent.
>-- 

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);}
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