On 0, Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com> wrote: > OK I would like to know how this monstrosity made it into Debian Stable: > > $ whatis bc > bc (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language > $ bc > bc 1.06 > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details type `warranty'. > 6.2/0.3 > 20 > > I have looked into the man page, and nothing there indicates this kind of > nonsense. I hereby propose renaming the package into "a calculator with a > very arbitrary precision" I think what you mean is 'a calculator with a very fixed precision.' You are just restating the whatis description. ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "This does not happen very often in Northallerton." - Siobhan Cowton, 14, of Yorkshire, after being hit by a meteorite. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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