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Wed Apr  7 23:44:33 1982
IBM PC divide bug revisited
Having access to an IBM PC, I couldn't resist trying to make the
1/10 giving .001 bug happen.  After many tries, I discovered that
as long as the division is done with variables, the result is ok.
To successfully cause the "bug", I had to do the division using
double precision literals (print .1#/10#).  Unfortunately, I don't
think the bug is in the output routine as was earlier suspected.
The following program also fails!!
  c#=.1#/10#
  print c#
Maybe IBM will handle this the way they sometimes "fix" bugs on their
large systems... They'll change the manual and call it a "feature".

Oh yes, one other thing.  Did you know that .1#/100# == .1#/1000#?
They both yield .0001.

Marsh Gosnell   BTL Piscataway (...!whuxlb!pyuxr!mkg)

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