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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: logarithms on ada
Date: 1997/03/05
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bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote:

<..snip..>
>In grade-school, I was quite sure that (1/3)*3 = 1, exactly.  ;-)
>Of course, in those days, I had the foolish notion that God had not
>deemed 2**31-1 to be equal to infinity.  ;-)

Or even 2^32 to be an odd number! Try this on a casio FX-450 or
FX-450M calculator or various other Casio calculators from the mid
eighties!

>
>- Bob


Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>