On Wed, 1 Feb 1995 07:55:34 PST, Ochs, Fred posted:
: Chris Breemer writes:
 
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: Yes, there can be both a positive and negative 0. As I recall you would
: get the negative if a minus sign was overpunched on the 0 on the key
: punched card. I think that effectively on the 3K you will not see a
: negative 0 ever entered by the user.
 
You'll get a "negative 0" (sic) if the full value stored in the variable
is negative, and the low-order digit is zero (-10, -5280, etc.).  Remember,
the sign may be "overpunched" on the low-order digit, but it applies to
the *entire value* not just the low-order digit.
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