GNU bug report logs - #30453
Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Thomas Bracken <t.bracken <at> shaw.ca>

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 07:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 30453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 30453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30453: Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:46:34 -0600

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
> expressions.
> 
>         expr / expr
>                The  result  of  the  expression  is  the quotient of
> the two expressions.  The scale of the result is the value of the
> variable
>                scale.

as bc(1) is not part of GNU coreutils,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf
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