>Again... I feel like an idiot.... Your explanation was way over my head. I'm not sure how to apply your suggestions in the original example I gave. Larry suggested that I do the following if the value is greater than 32767
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>-(2^16) + lcTest
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>How would you change that? -Jeff
>p.s. sorry to be a pest.

See Sergey's code. It's been so long since I've done AL, it had gotten simplified in my mind<g>. He's correct that negative numbers are stored in two's complement form (more complication) and not in the manner I described. See if his code will work for you.


Jay