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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Thursday, April 16, 2015 a las 06:04:00PM +0200, Antek Kantek escribió:

> Another thing I noticed by accident is that if you compute simple expression like this
> 10*0,2+12*0,4+14*0,25+16*0,15
> in calc app you get as a result
> 12,700000000000001
> I understand that computing on floats is tricky, so I am not sure if you consider the above as a bug or feature. If you think that I should report this as a bug let me know.
> Antek

Hi,

Any normal 'bc' on FreeBSD and Linux gives exactly:

$ echo '10*0.2+12*0.4+14*0.25+16*0.15' | bc
12.70

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