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To: Joe PPP who wrote (20874)	5/9/1997 12:46:00 PM
From: Martin Atkinson-Barr	of 186894

I had not tested my copies of Excel & 123 to see if they were susceptible to this bug at that time. I understand now that Excel & 123 do not bother to keep any variables as integers. If you ask for an int you get a rounded float stored in float format. The industry "experts" were saying some pretty silly things when they said that this bug only occurs when you do "really advanced mathematical computations". I don't think converting a float to an int is "really advanced". Do you? My point is that I do it all the time on spreadsheets. By the design of the major spreadsheets (Excel & 123) they miss this bug as the don't use a 2 or 4 byte integer data type

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