Hello John, thanks for clarifying this.
> This is not a scale bug. This is how the POSIX spec specifies
> the computation. The "10 * 2.1" ends up doing the computation
> with an effective scale of 1 ignoring the scale variable.
> In the division, that one uses the scale variable.
>
> This is not documented as well as possible in the manual page.
> I'll try to fix it. (doc bug)
But why does POSIX tread "*" and "/" differently?
I have not found an explanation for this behaviour.
(Searching the NET thuesday morning)
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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Tamay Dogan Network
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