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

[Bill Vermillion]

Fairlight, the prominent pundit, on Sat, Feb 12 21:16  while half 
mumbling half-witicized: 

> This public service announcement was brought to you by Michael J. Mc Avoy Sr.:
> > Jezze,
> > 
> > I sure thought at least one of ya would want to
> > know what I was doing with all these dang records.
> > 
> > Hint....

> > 53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42

> 53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42 = 113704500

> Erm...the result bc gives doesn't ring a bell.

Unless you set the scale [as in my example I posted] bc will
be working integers.

The first computation 53/5 will give you 10 without setting the
scale, while setting scale=2 will give  10.60


> I'll go with my default
> answer of, "Taking up disk space?"

> Do tell, though.  Kate loves a mystery.

But everyone knows the real answer:

Six by nine, Forty-two.
That's it.  That's all there is.

That's the answer to life, the universe and everything.

And if you don't think   6x9=42, you aren't thinking in base 13 :-)

Bill

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