Re: bc and dc. (Was: neatroff for Russian.)

2023-04-28 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Ralph, On 4/28/23 11:34, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Alejandro, > > None of the below may apply to GNU's bc and dc. I prefer Unix. > >> bc(1) on the contrary, is likely to be using 'long double', for being >> able to provide so many digits. > > No, bc doesn't use a C language or machine type

Re: bc and dc. (Was: neatroff for Russian.)

2023-04-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Alejandro, None of the below may apply to GNU's bc and dc. I prefer Unix. > bc(1) on the contrary, is likely to be using 'long double', for being > able to provide so many digits. No, bc doesn't use a C language or machine type. The precision can be set. $ bc -l scale=42 l(1114