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to: Roy McNeill
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-08-26 10:07:48
subject: possible floating point error in BC

PE> The only things defined are 0, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE.

PE> You could give the official version and then say "in the dos world you
PE> might want to do xyz instead".  BFN.  Paul.

RM> What is Binkley, then? It returns all sorts of non-zero values for
RM> non-error conditions.

Binkley uses MSDOS/OS2/whatever-specific errorlevel capabilities.  

PE> P.S. I tried out your code, but couldn't make it print the reciprocol of
PE> 360 (or whatever).

RM> Works fine here, prints out 5 numbers whose reciprocals contain
RM> 1996. I thought I'd written it portably - do you get any output at
RM> all?

I got output, but not the output I was after (a reciprocal of a particular
number).  I'll try again.  BFN.  Paul.
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