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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:31:33PM -0600,
 Warren Block probably wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Parv wrote:
>=20
> > Perl:
> >   perl -e 'print +(17 * 36)'
>=20
> Or just
>=20
>      perl -e 'print 17 * 36'
>=20
> but for neatness
>=20
>      perl -e 'print 17 * 36, "\n"'

Or just

$ sh -c 'echo $((17*36))'
612

or

$ echo $((17*36))

if you use sh as your interactive shell.

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DoubleF
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