On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:35 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Following your post however, I checked with "<" and ">" - which 
> produces the
> very weird result that
>     ("1E2345" = "1E2345") --> false
>     ("1E2345" < "1E2345") --> false
>     ("1E2345" > "1E2345") --> true

Perhaps for some weird reason, the right side is converted to a 
number, gets an overflow, and then becomes the too-big string 
"00000inf".  Being a string, it is compared to the left as a string.

This wild guess is a stretch.  Why didn't the left side become 
"00000inf", too?

Dar Scott

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