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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-20 14:39:57 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-20 14:39:57 +0100
commited71262bc258311690e7761154f8413465d9c78e (patch)
treeadd23c713b03ee39aa6371ddd27bda2fcaf11fb7 /doc
parentf797c04415d348ae15a0c0aa8a19cfe8d22569bd (diff)
downloadcoreutils-ed71262bc258311690e7761154f8413465d9c78e.tar.xz
doc: improve factor example
* doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation): Adjust example to use $(...) consistently, not a mix of `...` and $(...). Separate the computation of the product and the actual factorization, so the timing of the latter doesn't include the cost of the former.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index c26a53d5d..c229f987a 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -15964,8 +15964,10 @@ Factoring the product of the eighth and ninth Mersenne primes
takes about 30 milliseconds of CPU time on a 2.2 GHz Athlon.
@example
-M8=`echo 2^31-1|bc` ; M9=`echo 2^61-1|bc`
-/usr/bin/time -f '%U' factor $(echo "$M8 * $M9" | bc)
+M8=$(echo 2^31-1|bc)
+M9=$(echo 2^61-1|bc)
+n=$(echo "$M8 * $M9" | bc)
+/usr/bin/time -f %U factor $n
4951760154835678088235319297: 2147483647 2305843009213693951
0.03
@end example