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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C 
>> compiler.
> 
> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
> 

Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing.  It's a POSIX 
utility.

	-hpa