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From: rosenblum@draco.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Bug in PRINT USING in Basic
Message-ID: <2020@galaxy>
Date: 1 Feb 89 02:13:16 GMT
Sender: news@galaxy
Organization: Rutgers University Graduate School of Management
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I have found a bug in the PRINT USING statement in Basic for the IBM-PC 
by Microsoft.  I am running DOS 3.10 -- the header that comes up when I 
go into Basic says that I am running Version D3.10, with copyright dates 
1981, 1985, although my Basic manual says that I have 1.10.  Anyway, the 
bug is that

PRINT USING "##.##########"; 0.001

prints

 0.0001000000

on the screen (note the extra zero between the decimal point and the 1).
If I allow only nine places to the right of the decimal point, this does 
not happen, but if I allow ten or more and print out a small enough 
number (I haven't tested to see how small small enough is), it divides 
the number by 10.

I presume that I'm not the first person to discover this.  Is there a 
work-around or a fix?  Thanks in advance.

Daniel M. Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Quantitative Studies,
   Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University (Newark)

BITnet: ROSENBLUM@ZODIAC or ROSENBLUM@DRACO
Internet: ROSENBLUM@CANCER.RUTGERS.EDU or ROSENBLUM@DRACO.RUTGERS.EDU
Internet with old ARPANET NIC host tables:
   ROSENBLUM%CANCER.RUTGERS.EDU@RUTGERS.EDU or
   ROSENBLUM%DRACO.RUTGERS.EDU@RUTGERS.EDU