Re: floating point hex calc?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 18:21:57 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> But how about output in hexadecimal?
> 
>     $ bc -l
>     > ibase=16
>     > obase=16
>     > 1.23456
>     :  01.03 00 14 21
> 
> What does this means???

Hmm... it seems that the input base is taken into account for obase.
A bug, IMHO. So...

    $ bc -l
    > ibase=16
    > obase=10
    > 1.23456
    : 1.2344E

bc's rounding method is broken.

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