grt@hocda.UUCP (G.TOMASEVICH) (05/03/84)
Someone just quoted me here. I goofed, it must have been a 10000-digit add that I did. Consider the time and the size of such a product! Anyway, a friend did a factorial program that grew the number as needed. He checked it with 99! and 100! by comparing the typeouts. That would make a neat UNIX exercise: Run the program twice with redirected output and compare the two files. Maybe someone could do it with 'bc(1)'. Now I know where that name comes from: 'bc' emulates antideluvian architectures. George Tomasevich, AT&T Bell Laboratories