Jeff Kell, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The calculation is:  4195835 - ( (4195835/3145727) * 3145727 )
...
> Apparently it's a function of IEEE floating point versus the IBM's
> goofy floating point format (wonder what a classic 3000 would say?)
 
Quick sanity check, using long reals in BASIC, yielded zero (whew, and I
had all those years of guilt to face!) This was on a Series 42.  Sorry,
it's too late for the "baroque" (SIO = Series II and III) machines, even
in our valley.
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