"Dana DeLouis" wrote...
Did you get 134217728 from the following Microsoft kb article?

XL: MOD() Function Returns #NUM! Error Value
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;119083
...

I did try searching the KB, but I was lazy and just fed Excel and MOD to basic
search rather than using advanced search restricted to Excel-related articles.

Interesting they don't call this a bug. So I guess it's a feature. Also
interesting that Microsoft seems to believe they needed to improve upon either
the FPREM1 FPU (yes, I'm being very Wintel-centric) instruction's or standard C
fmod(3) call's results. Of course the code for MOD may never have been touched
since the original Mac version was released, and that would have preceded both
wide-spread hardware floating point support and C language standardization, and
it could possibly explain the odd 2^27 value. Was there something magic about
three nine-bit words or maybe 28-bit signed values on really old Macs?

It'd be interesting to find out whether Excel 5/95 and 2003 also work like this.

--
Never attach files.
Snip unnecessary quoted text.
Never multipost (though crossposting is usually OK).
Don't change subject lines because it corrupts Google newsgroup archives.