Hello, and thank you for maintaining such a useful piece of software.
I produced the following output from wcalc and believe it may indicate a bug:
■ echo '256^(7/16)' | wcalc -q -h
0xb.504f333f9de6484597d89b3754abe
■ echo '256^(7/16)' | wcalc -q -h -P0
0x5
■ echo '256^(7/16)' | wcalc -q -h -P0 --defaults
0xb
■ cat ~/.wcalcrc
color = yes
engineering = never
history_limit = no
precision_guard = yes
colors[approx_answer] = boldcyan
colors[exact_answer] = boldgreen
colors[prompt] = boldblue
■ sed -i 's/^\(engineering\) /#\1/g' ~/.wcalcrc
■ echo '256^(7/16)' | wcalc -q -h -P0
0xb
■ wcalc -v
wcalc 2.5