A question to my learned friends:

In Smsq -1 <> (-1 + 0)

In internal format, Exponent . Mantissa:

-1        = $800 . $C0000000
-1 + 0  = $801 . $80000000 

which can be a flaming nuisance!

However,

-1 == (-1 + 0)

which is some relief!

This behaviour appears to apply to all (small?) negative numbers, thus

-8 <> -8 + 0 but

-9 = -9 + 0 !

Is this a bug?

Per

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