Description of problem: dc doesn't enforce precision. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bc-1.06-19.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.echo "k 0 1 2 / p" | dc 2.echo "k 0 1 0.4 * p" | dc 3. Actual results: 1. "0" 2. ".4" Expected results: 1. "0" 2. "0" Additional info: If precision setting is meaningless (as it appears to be in case of multiplication) then a command should be available to actually enforce the desired precision.
FC5 has now been EOL'd. This is not a bug but a feature. Work with precisions is described at http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/dc-1.05/html_mono/dc.html. Operation "/" takes care about precision value which is set by "k". Others operations (like "*") calculates precision from operands (sometimes co-operates with precision value). As I see in source code, precisions are calculated exactly as is described in doc above. Zdenek.