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Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
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Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> writes:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> writes:
> > > bc - an undergrad could re-implement based on man page
> > With a good arbitrary-precision math library, yes.  The one we have
> > happens to be GPLed.
> but do we need it?

Yes, it is required by POSIX.

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