FC>> I always assumed that numeric array elements were 0 unless 
 FC>> otherwise assigned.
 FC>> dim huge record???(-32768 to 32767)
 FC>> print record???(-32768)
 FC>> is a long way from 0.
 > I'm not certain what your point is, Frank.
Well, in the above example, record???(-32768) has a value of 4.294902E+9 
until you assign another value to it.  At least, it did just now.  The value 
may be random; I haven't experimented with it enough to be able to say.  It's 
non-zero, anyway.
If you do this:
dim record???(3)
print record???(0)
the value of record???(0) is 0 until you assign another value to it.
I was working with huge arrays and was doing something like this to run 
through the array until I hit the end of the values that I had assigned:
x%=-32768
do until record???(x%) =0
    incr x%
loop
and was wondering why it wasn't working.  It took me a while to twig on to 
the fact that the initial value of an unassigned numeric variable in a huge 
array was non-zero, unlike other array structures.
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