[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of SciDc - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> said:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:52:18PM +0200, mathieu wrote:
> > Francesco Poli <address@hidden> a tapoté :
> > 
> > > On 30 Mar 2003 12:45:08 +0200 Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ok, but do you really want it called "scidc" or "scibc"?
> > > 
> > > Is that a problem? I mean: is the explicit reference to Dc a problem? 
> > > If it is, I'll try hard to find a better name.
> > 
> > Not at all, the explicit reference is meaningful, but isn't it GNU Bc
> > instead of GNU Dc? 
> 
> #apt-cache show dc
> Package: dc
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: important
> Section: math
> Installed-Size: 93
> Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <address@hidden>
> Source: bc
> Version: 1.05a-11
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
> Description: The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator
>  GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited
>  precision arithmetic.  It also allows you to define and call macros.
>  .
>  A reverse-polish calculator stores numbers on a stack. Entering a number
>  pushes it on the stack.  Arithmetic operations pop arguments off the
>  stack and push the results.

Yes, Francesco already told me that GNU bc project was composed by GNU
bc and GNU dc, which are slightly different tools. :)


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Mathieu Roy
 
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