Errata....

On Dec 31, 8:11*am, I wrote:
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I was referring to calculation limits. The largest integer that
Excel can __display__ exactly is 1 quadrillion or $10 trillion
dollars-and-cents, because Excel limits its display to 15
significant digits.

PS: I should say "quadrillion American" and "trillion American".
That is, a number followed by 15 and 12 zeros respectively. In
British parlance, quadrillion is a number followed by 24 zeros,
and trillion is a number followed by 18 zeros.

On Dec 31, 3:04*am, "VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com"
<VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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This is a spam ad. Below is a Nov 29 posting in
sci.philosophy.meta by someone using the same email
address.

Since the person posting these is using the same
email address, the moderators should have no problem
blocking all future postings.

PS: For the legitimately interested reader, I have not
found any information on just how big a "large number"
Virtual Calc can handle -- if it's a legitimate product at
all and not a trojan horse. FYI, Excel can accurately
handle integers over 9 quadrillion [1]. It can handle
dollar-and-cents numbers over $90 trillion, but it can
be a little tricky (but not insurmountable) to maintain
accuracy due to the use of native binary computer
arithmetic.

[1] The largest accurate integer is 2^53, which is
9,007,199,254,740,990.


Example of spam-ad posting:

From: "VinegarTasters[at]gmail.com" <VinegarTasters[at]gmail.comNewsgroups: alt.philosophy, sci.philosophy.meta
Subject: philosophy from ancient Chinese secrets
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:14:42 -0800 (PST)

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philosophies?

As an example...
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1002146

Visit the site and download the .torrent file. Then use a torrent
client called utorrent (look it
up) on that .torrent file to download the videos describing the
ancient chinese secrets.
What do you think?

On Dec 31, 5:04*am, "VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com"
<VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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Unix systems typically have a big number calculator called bc. On a
Mac, you have to open a terminal window to access it.

--
Ron

On Dec 31, 4:04*am, "VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com"
<VinegarTast...[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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Have you tried switching the regular Windows calculator to scientific
mode?
Click on View...Scientific in the calculator program's menu bar

Hello. If I am on windows, and want to calculate big numbers (those
regular calculators
don't handle large numbers very well), what application should I get?

I heard of Virtual Calc 2000 (or 2000a). Any others?

If you want to know where to download Virtual Calc 2000, here it is:

http://www.fulldls.com/torrent-app-92006.html