Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpindwa!tribby From: tribby@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (David Tribby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Appleworks GS bug? Message-ID: <54240024@hpindwa.cup.hp.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 00:03:13 GMT References: Organization: HP Info Networks Div/Cupertino CA Lines: 11 nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes... > ok, and some of the columns appear with read zeros with parens around them > and some appear with black zeros with no parens around them. > my question is, is there such a thing as -0 and +0, > or is this a bug. Perhaps you have set formatting to a particular number of decimal points, and the result is a negative number too small to be expressed. For example, if you print 2 decimal points and the value is -0.004, it would be printed as a red -.00, wouldn't it? -- Dave Tribby