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From:	Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] bc only does integer division
Date:	Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:22:13
Message-Id:	`4776824.o8SQFdNK48@m-id.message-center.info`

1	Hello!
2
3	When I called "bc -l", I used to be able to do proper divisions,
4	ie. 1/4 returned 0.25. But now:
5
6	alexander@blatt /all $ bc -l
7	bc 1.06.94
8	Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
9	This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
10	For details type `warranty'.
11	1/4
12	0
13
14	sys-devel/bc-1.06.94
15
16	Any idea what's going wrong here?
17
18	Thanks,
19
20	Alexander Skwar
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Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division	Wonko@wonkology.org (Alex Schuster)