MOD function does not work! So be warned!

[Michael D Mays]

One problem is what is an integer?

Is 123456789112345678 an integer? Yes. No. Maybe

put 123456789112345678+0 on a PPC Mac results in
 123456789112345680

If we were C programmers we would know that this is the 'correct' answer.
But we are merely lowly xTalkers and we wonder where the seven went. ;)

If I would have done this 12 years ago on any Mac my results would have been
 123456789112345678

I don't know what our brethren in the windows world get. But it could be
different. (I get the same answer with Virtual PC running 2000.)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xtalks/

michael

Rob Cozens of rcozens at pon.net wrote the following on 4/5/02 11:00 AM

> I think Xtalk should follow normal programming convent and have mod
> reject non-integer values.  I'm ready to initiate a discussion on the
> topic on the Xtalk List, if someone would please send me subscription
> instructions.