Here is another message from upstream on this bug:
Here is the relavant part of the POSIX spec. scale is included, but
in a max(), not a min().
expression * expression
The result shall be the product of the two expressions. If a
and b are the scales of the two expressions, then the scale
of the result shall be:
min(a+b,max(scale,a,b))
scale=0
1.1 * 1.1
1.2
scale=2
1.1 * 1.1
1.21
One of the few places that scale makes a difference in the *.
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John Hasler
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