>I think that we see it more because foxpro uses the FPU more than other languages because all numerics are doubles, therefore the fpu is always used. The performance hit for resetting the state of the FPU before every FPU operation would be too great in this case. This is also why Intel Pentiums run foxpro faster than non Intel equivalents, they tend to have faster integer performance and slower FPU performance.

Hi Albert,

I'd have to disagree here. Most other applications, spreadsheets for example, handle division by zero better internally than VFP. For example, type =0/0 into an Excel cell, and you'll see "ERR". Do a ? 0/0 and you see a series of asterisks in VFP. No error message or warning. I think that's the culprit here.