No one asked what I was doing with 120,526,770 records

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Sat Feb 12 19:07:35 PST 2005


On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:16:58PM -0500, Fairlight, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> 53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42 = 113704500

Someone pointed out that my calculation was incorrect.  I'd point out that
I simply copied and pasted into 'bc' on *nix:

[cobalt] [~] [9:14pm]: bc
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42
113704500

And lest it be bc on the linux box (which I've segv'd with simple addition,
if you can believe it), I actually tried on Solaris just now:

[shell1] [~] [10:03pm]: bc
53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42
113704500

How would I get an error on two different machines?

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