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August 7, 2002 22:17
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Re: And the winner is...Juho Snellman
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In article <20020808051117.GA19996@ruunat.phys.uu.nl>,
	Eugene van der Pijll <E.C.vanderPijll@phys.uu.nl> writes:
> 
>     $ cat factorial.pl 
>     #!perl -l
>     $_*=$`%9e9,//for~4=~/0*$/..pop;print$`%10
>     $ perl factorial.pl 15
>     0
>     $ perl --version
> 
>     This is perl, v5.6.1 built for alpha-dec_osf
> 
> Can someone explain, please?

mmm, does this happen to be a perl compiled to use 64-bit integers ?
Does it work if you replace ~4 by +1 ?
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