GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7

Re:GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7 by paxcoder on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:13PM (#14044713)

Does anyone know why the default scale is 0 (meaning division rounds down by default)?

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Re:GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7 by rsync on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:37PM (#14044891)

No idea but initial system setup on every system I touch is to alias bc to 'bc -l'.

I use bc tens of times per day ...

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Re:GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7 by xorcist on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:36PM (#14045860)

I use bc all the time, yet I still managed to miss that option. Thanks!

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Re:GNU bc ends 11-year beta test, releases 1.7 by bandrami on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:29PM (#14046639)

Historical compatibility. Back in the day you couldn't always guarantee you even had a coprocessor, so scale > 0 could get arbitrarily expensive.

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