Oleg sez: } OK I would like to know how this monstrosity made it into Debian Stable: } } $ whatis bc } bc (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language } $ 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'. } 6.2/0.3 } 20 } } I have looked into the man page, and nothing there indicates this kind of } nonsense. I hereby propose renaming the package into "a calculator with a } very arbitrary precision"
RTFM and quit your whining. The man page refers to the scale variable. By default, scale is 0 and only integers are returned: $ bc scale 0 6.2/0.3 20 scale=4 scale 4 6.2/0.3 20.6666 } Oleg --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
