Mar 85 Letters
Volume Number: 1
Issue Number: 4
Column Tag: Letters, reviews
Letters, reviews
CALENDAR BUG?
While timorously awaiting my bill for your worthy journal, I would like to
compliment you on your efforts to date. I have recieved the first two issues and eagerly
await more.
The BASIC column is of primary interest to me at present, so I was happy to see a
perpetual calendar arrive in time for the new year. In trying to run the program,
however, I encountered a problem. Until I changed the constant in the calculation of
“y” (about 3/5ths of the way down column two on page 18 (where are line numbers
when you need them?!)), 1985 would not work! (1984 & ’86 did.) I am running the
Steiner/Kelly calendar under MSBASIC 2.0, BINARY version. I found that the number
1.2499999 allowed the above error, as did 1.3. 1.2 seems to work, as does
1.22499999.