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-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 28 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 2 2017 $
.Dt DC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
operator.
The
.Ic M
-operator is a non-portable extensions, used by the
+operator is a non-portable extension, used by the
.Xr bc 1
command.
.It Ic N
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Otto Moerbeek .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+While fractional input in base 10 is always exact,
+other bases may suffer from unintuitive rounding.
+To avoid surprising results, plain integer division can be used
+instead of the corresponding floating point notation.