bug#30453: Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 30453 notabug close 30453 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-02-14 3:33 p.m., Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: This is not a bug. From the man-page: $ man bc | fgrep -A5 "expr * expr" expr * expr The result of the expression is the product of the two

bug#30453: Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1

2018-02-14 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
This is not a bug. >From the man-page: $ man bc | fgrep -A5 "expr * expr" expr * expr The result of the expression is the product of the two expressions. expr / expr The result of the expression is the quotient of the two expressions. The scale of

bug#30453: Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1

2018-02-13 Thread Thomas Bracken
Hello, Your BC calculator does not do any truncation for the scale value when it does a multiplication.  See example below. It works fine on division, but not on multiplication. Cheers! Tom Bracken [thomas@HP6005computer1 ~]$ bc bc 1.07.1 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006,