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Hi, |
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I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version |
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installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't |
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used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are |
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no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this. From the manpage: |
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The most basic element in bc is the number. Numbers are arbitrary precision |
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numbers. This precision is both in the integer part and the fractional |
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part. All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all computation |
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is done in decimal. (This version truncates results from divide and |
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multiply operations.) There are two attributes of numbers, the length and |
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the scale. The length is the total number of significant decimal digits |
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in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after the |
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decimal point. For example: |
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.000001 has a length of 6 and scale of 6. |
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1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3. |
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Anyone have any ideas? |
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--Mike |
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