MOD function does not work! So be warned!

[David Vaughan]

On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 07:50 , Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 01:16 AM, David Vaughan wrote:
>
>> A solution (use round when it must be integer, raise to the power 1 
>> when it must be floating point and concatenate with empty for a 
>> string) is straightforward enough and rarely needed.
>
> I don't think I understand how to use this.
>
> Case in point:
> put ("8" & empty) < ("33" & empty) --> true
> These numeral values compare as numbers.  I can't "make" them be 
> strings.
um... true. You actually have to append a space, not empty. There's one 
for me.
>
> I realize there is a lot of heritage behind this, but I would have been 
> happier to discover I could not tell there was any representation other 
> than strings.  ...to discover that arithmetic has a simple 
> numeral-to-number-to-(limited)-numeral semantics.  I would have been 
> please to learn something like, "Numerals with less than 20 digits 
> represent numbers.  An arithmetic function on numerals returns an exact 
> representation of the result if it can be represented in 20 or less 
> digits, otherwise ..."
>
> It is kind of strange to find that there are some x such that "B" & x = 
> "B236" is true but x = 236 is false.
>
> Dar Scott
>
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