I had been wondering why there were not "rules of algebra" explanations for the floating-point variants of MULTIPLY. So I looked:
"The sign of the product, if the product is numeric, is the exclusive or of the operand signs. This includes the sign of a zero or infinite product." In mathematics, is there a problem with infinity having a sign? Drifting OT again... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
