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 Numbers
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    The most basic element in `bc' is the number.  Numbers are arbitrary
 precision numbers.  This precision is both in the integer part and the
 fractional part.  All numbers are represented internally in decimal and
 all computation is done in decimal.  (This version truncates results
 from divide and multiply operations.)  There are two attributes of
 numbers, the length and the scale.  The length is the total number of
 significant decimal digits in a number and the scale is the total number
 of decimal digits after the decimal point.  For example, .000001 has a
 length of 6 and scale of 6, while 1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale
 of 3.
 

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