Possible bug in bc(1)

Hello,

I'm getting strange result with something looking like valid data:

[rm_at_smsh-zfs ~]> bc
2*1\
2*1
24

I'd expect the output being like that:
2*1\
2
2*1
2

What I see in bc(1) man-page regarding to backslash is:
"The sequence ‘\<newline><whitespace>’ is ignored within numbers."

So looks like it doesn't actually ignored or I missing something?

Thanks for clarification.

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Ruslan

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