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Re: Product of a list of numbers?

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on Jan 23, 2004 at 10:20 UTC ( [id://323495]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Product of a list of numbers?

For a quick and dirty way, I like to do stuff like: 
sub product {
    my $list = shift;
    local $" = "*";
   `echo '@$list' | bc`
}

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