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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help!
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 23:35:31 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
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- On 31-Dec-95, Richard wrote:
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- >I recently decided to sit down and learn ARexx. As I went through the
- >manual writing some sample programs, I found the output distressing.
- >I wrote a simple calculation program which would produce the squares and
- >cubes of the numbers 1-10. The square of 1 would appear to be 2, the
- >square of 3 seems to equal 19; while the cube equals 29. There are more
- >errors (square of 6=319) but I won't bore you with the details. I used
- >the following program: do i=1 to 10
- > say i i**2 i**3
- > end
- >I'm using an A1200 w/ a GVP 1230+ accelerator and a 68882 FPU. Anyone
- >have any ideas why I get such garbage??
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- I just tried that simple 4 line proggy here and got the correct results (rules
- out a program logic problem). Maybe the RX programme is corrupt or maybe
- theres a hardware fault somewhere? Any one else got any ideas?
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- John Severinsen |- J.R.R. Tolkien
- jsev@midland.co.nz |
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- Power Corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat
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