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Let's please try to get a bit more constructive. You don't have to yell at me, I didn't come up with this task :-) If you're just looking for an explicitly worded direction, would "do the same thing the Algol60 program does" be enough? If not, what extra instructions do you require? --[[User:Dirkt|Dirkt]] 02:01, 28 March 2008 (MDT)
 
BASIC does not have "recursion and non-local references" and so the task cannot be coded in BASIC. Kind of like trying to represent π (pi) as a Fraction. The ADA version works fine for me. [[User:60.52.12.85|60.52.12.85]] 05:04, 28 March 2008 (MDT)
 
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