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From: howie@pnet02.cts.com (Howard Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C Power 128 floating point to integer conversion bug
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 06:30:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 06:30:50 1987
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In article, fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) writes:
>I think you mis-remembered the magic numbers- the ones don't cause a
>problem on either ROM set.  If you found some numbers that do not work
>on the upgrade ROMs, I'd like to hear about it.
>The C Power problem is unrelated to this.

The formula, recalled on the fly was wrong.  The actual one that causes a
prob with the upgrade ROM's for the 128 is: 
A=8.9:B=INT(A):C=A-B:PRINT C

With the new ROM's installed, I have no way of knowing if this is a new prob,
or a carry over from the old ROM's.  I do know that the new ROM's fixed the
trailing decimals when doing multiplication with numbers in the thousands
range.  While I may be the bearer of news of a bug(?), I take no credit for
its discovery.  As far as I know that goes to the illustrous CBM*BOB of
P-Link.

Howie Herman                           howie@pnet02.cts.com
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