From: Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [SPAM] - [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? - Bayesian Filter detected spam
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hd3fm6tn.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1a7ee0c0605240948v690c5605x1cc39b6fcc8921e7@mail.gmail.com> (Mike Huber's message of "Wed, 24 May 2006 11:48:29 -0500")
"Mike Huber" <michael.huber@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version
> installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't
> used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are
> no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this. From the manpage:
$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
101/3
33
$ bc -l
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
101/3
33.66666666666666666666
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2006-05-24 16:48 [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? Mike Huber
2006-05-24 21:49 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2006-05-26 1:38 ` [SPAM] - [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? - Bayesian Filter detected spam znx
2006-05-25 16:05 ` [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? John Green
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