Reliability of `bc' (or: is `bc' buggy?)

[Ronald Pikkert]

>From article <1991Mar1.093606.3280 at glance.ch>, by david at glance.ch (David Mosberger):
] What may cause these strange results with control characters in the output?

I tried this input:

a=119615636279504466
b=196129796
a
b
a/b
scale=15
a/b

and it gave this ouput:

119615636279504466
196129796
609880-2208
609879981.109573305220793

I found that any scale >= 1 solves the problem. I'm not sure
about the exact cause.

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