From: Wonko@wonkology.org (Alex Schuster)
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division
Date: 04 Sep 2006 22:55:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A0Fpco49d8B@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4776824.o8SQFdNK48@m-id.message-center.info
Alexander Skwar writes:
> When I called "bc -l", I used to be able to do proper divisions,
> ie. 1/4 returned 0.25. But now:
>
> alexander@blatt /all $ bc -l
> bc 1.06.94
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 1/4
> 0
> Any idea what's going wrong here?
Yes, this is a known bug. 1.06.95 will fix this issuet, but that might
take a while, since the bug is known since june.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136643
The stable version 1.06-r6 is working fine, so I suggest you
downgrade.
Alex
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-04 20:05 [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division Alexander Skwar
2006-09-04 20:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-04 20:55 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2006-09-04 21:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-06 8:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
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