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hihi, peter, alin-adrian, don -

thanx for your quick answers and suggestions (i don't think that i tried to
run this program on any of my 4.x systems and i know i haven't tried to run it
on anything else, since i don't use anything else for real work; apparently,
pentiums sort of use ieee floating point, which has 52+1 bits mantissa, with
flags to use 64bits - so that's not the problem either)

it sounds more like peter's more historically aware response explains what
happened - i will see what i can do to check it and report back soon

i will also look up the PR reporting procedures and make one of for this

thanx to all,
and more soon,
cal

Chris Landauer
Aerospace Integration Science Center
The Aerospace Corporation
cal@aero.org