On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> I want to be hoonest, I am not involved in bc problems, but reading these
> mails, just as an idea:
>
> Why not creating a new bc, or in other words changing the bc of today and
> correcting that math stuff. Name the new, corrected bc something like bc2.
>
> Everybody wanting to keep (for any reasons) the old one may call bc at the
> prompt or in scripts.
>
> Everybody wanting the new, corrected bc may call bc2 at the prompt or in
> scripts.
>
> Everybody saying "I don4t care" (for any reasons) may symlink bc2 getting it
> as bc.
>
>
> What about going that way??
bc (with its shortcomings) has its place because of history and SU. If
you want another arbitrary precision calculator it's probably more
productive to check out the existing ones. There are already tons of
arbitrary precision calculators around. Check ports/math
-Otto
