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From	Russell Harper <russell.s.harper@gmail.com>
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Literal real values in bases other than 10 lose precision, e.g.

$ dc <<<'16 d i o F423F.FD p'
F423F.FA

Would expect the output to be F423F.FD

It basically makes the calculator useless for non-decimal calculations.

Regards,

Russell

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