>>I didn't know VFP's behaviour like that.
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>>I think so fortran is right... :)
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>No. The result of fortran is right if you code fortran. The result of vfp is right if you code in vfp.
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>It is simply wrong to trust assumptions if you deal with formulas and comps.
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>I do not know but on primary school there was something what we called chain - calculation. It was just to learn basic operaitons
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>The teacher asks 2+3
>Answer 6

What school did you go to ? [ ducking ... ]





>T -2?
>A 4
>T *2
>A 8
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>So nobody would assume that 2+3-2*2 is 8
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>But this was not the formula. It was
>lnResult=2+3
>?lnResult
>lnResult=lnResult-2
>?lnResult
>lnResult=lnResult-2
>?lnResult
>lnResult=lnResult*2
>?lnResult
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>This is the same if you use a four operator caculator or a scientific one.
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>An other example is the use of MOD(). It looks like Modulo operation but it is not. (comes up twice a year in this forum)