> I am guessing these approaches would be orders of magnatude faster than > the simpler approaches?
Not sure, but they work better (as well as looking a lot more geek-chic :) (try flooring a negative integer with the simpler approaches - the wrong answer - assuming you want to floor towards 0 - is returned) Luke [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]