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From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Reliability of `bc' (or: is `bc' buggy?)
Message-ID: <898@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 4 Mar 91 11:58:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.093606.3280@glance.ch>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <1991Mar1.093606.3280@glance.ch>, by david@glance.ch (David Mosberger):
] What may cause these strange results with control characters in the output?

I tried this input:

a=119615636279504466
b=196129796
a
b
a/b
scale=15
a/b

and it gave this ouput:

119615636279504466
196129796
609880-2208
609879981.109573305220793

I found that any scale >= 1 solves the problem. I'm not sure
about the exact cause.

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