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Neither APM nor APW are able to properly display numbers that are
very large or very small, although, as the previous correspondent
pointed out, they are handled internally over a very wide range.
For those of us in the physical sciences, the inability to display
(and to accept input from students ) of floating point numbers
in "E"-notation is a crippling defect.  I have been complaining
about this since APM (initially known as "Course of Action") first
came out.  I was promised by an AW representative that this would
be fixed in Version 2.0 (!). The MM tech support representative
on the Compuserve forum responded to my complaint by saying that
most other programming languages don't support floating point i/o
either!  Given this level of ignorance, there does not seem to
either!  Given this level of ignorance and their preoccupation
with flashy multimedia features (all the better to sell MM's
other products), I don't see much hope unless other users
put pressure on the company.
--
Steve Lower - Dept of Chemistry - Simon Fraser University  (lower@sfu.ca)
Burnaby BC  V5A 1S6  Canada   (604)-291-3353