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Error in Unix commands dc and bc for multiple-precision-arithmetic
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Volume 28 ,  Issue 2  (April 1993) table of contents
Pages: 8 - 11  
Year of Publication: 1993
ISSN:0163-5778
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ABSTRACT

Erroroneous computations were found in the modulo-function % of the multiple-precision-software dc, standard in Unix™ -systems. Since the command bc is based upon dc, it is concerned, too.