Re: [FWP] Factorial Elegance

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@datenrevision.de>]

John Porter wrote:
> Here it is using dc instead, which ought to be quicker since it
> avoids one process invocation (bc runs dc).

Except for GNU bc, which is self-contained. (This is probably the reason why
GNU dc doesn't support the undocumented array operators, since they're only
necessary to support bc's output, but GNU bc doesn't call GNU dc.)

Cheers,
Philip

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