On 0, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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"
I think what you mean is 'a calculator with a very fixed precision.'
You are just restating the whatis description. ;-)
Tom
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