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Because of frequent questions ....... here is the BC FAQ 1) Why does BC have its own arbitrary precision number routines (found in lib/number.c) rather than using GMP? GMP has "integers" (no digits after a decimal), "rational numbers" (stored as 2 integers) and "floats". None of these will correctly represent a POSIX BC number. Floats are the closest, but will not behave correctly for many computations. For example, BC numbers have a "scale" that represent the number of digits to represent after the decimal point. The multiplying two of these numbers requires one to calculate an exact number of digits after the decimal point regardless of the number of digits in the integer part. GMP floats have a "fixed, but arbitrary" mantissa and so multiplying two floats will end up dropping digits BC must calculate.