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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject: Re: bin/1305: dc miscomputes remainder
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1305; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: bin/1305: dc miscomputes remainder
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:05:51 -0700

 > $ dc
 > 20176126330 14336 %p
 > 1012666
 > 
 > The correct answer is 14329.
 
 According to my HP-16 calculator, the correct answer is 12666, not
 14329.  So maybe it is a simple bug involving a portion of the answer
 not getting cleared properly.
 
 I built GNU bc-1.03, which contains their current version of "dc".  This
 problem is fixed in that version.  The code is _very_ different from
 what we have in our source tree.
 
 The best solution might be to replace our "dc" and "bc" with the current
 GNU versions.  They were released in November 1994, so they are presumably
 quite stable.  Our "bc" and "dc" are already GPL-tainted; that's not
 an issue.