Bug#911916: x11-apps: xcacl won't divide correctly on buster

[Per Gunnarsson]

Package: x11-apps
Version: 7.7+7
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to calculate how much carfentanil I needed, and when I tried
0.2/5000 I got the result 4e-05




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages x11-apps depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-6
ii libpng16-16 1.6.34-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.15-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.9-2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii man-db 2.8.4-2+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages x11-apps recommends:
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2

Versions of packages x11-apps suggests:
pn mesa-utils <none>

-- no debconf information

[Trek]

Post by Per Gunnarsson
I was trying to calculate how much carfentanil I needed, and when I
tried 0.2/5000 I got the result 4e-05

it correct, the result is in the e-notation format, where MeN means
M*10^N

check with bc:

$ echo "4*10^-5" | bc -l

results in 0.00004 exactly like:

$ echo ".2/5000" | bc -l

can this bug be closed?

ciao!

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

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