Re: New date bug [Re: Correcting AGE_INFO]
Re: New date bug [Re: Correcting AGE_INFO]
- Subject: Re: New date bug [Re: Correcting AGE_INFO]
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 07:08:29 -0700
On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> DM(2) =DM(2) -(YEAR/4 =INT(YEAR/4)) +(YEAR/100= INT(YEAR/100)) -(YEAR/400=
>> INT(YEAR/400))
>
> Ah, good old MS BASIC, where true is -1, which is why the signs above
> look backwards. Commodore BASIC was by Microsoft, so I'm very
> familiar with that particular oddity.
Curiously, although AppleSoft BASIC was written by Microsoft, true was +1. Apple probably insisted on that so it would be the same as Apple's Integer BASIC (which had been written by Woz).
-- Michelle
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