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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Subject: Re: dc(1) bugs
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RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> writes:

> I think what you are missing here is that dc and bc are part of the
> POSIX standard.

bc(1) is, but dc(1) is not.

bc seems to have the same problem:
> echo "ibase=16 ; 0.1" |bc -l
0.0
>