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From: Paul Sephton <paul@inet.co.za>
To: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: handling small numbers
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Having read Richard's answer, I have to say that his arguments are 
completely sensible.  I formally bow to his quite obviously superior 
knowledge and experience in this field.

In addition, being convinced of his arguments, I would like to apologise 
to him and other readers on this list for any offensive remarks I may 
have made in previous posts- they were not intended so.

Sorry, folks, but I feel quite strongly that in any language EXCEPTIONS 
SHOULD BE THE EXCEPTION RATHER THAN THE RULE.

I continue to be very grateful to those souls who have the ability and 
will to provide software developers with the definitions for languages we 
have today.  

Sincerely,
Paul
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Paul Sephton (paul@inet.co.za)                               INET Development
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