Guys:

I'm a little handicapped right now since my home computer is still pretty much dead, at least I got my Windows 98 partition working again to be able to surf the web and find solutions why the Win2K box logs me out right after accepting my login.

Anyway, I did do some testing on KiXtart 4.10RC2 before writing the challange and Kixtart seems to be able to handle large numbers if you convert to the CDBL() format of the number, which according to the manual is a double (= 8-byte double floating point, if I remember my C++ days correctly). Now, if the MOD() function indeed does not handle a large number, then a) we found a bug in KiXtart 4.10RC2 and b) there is a generic MOD() UDF on this board.

With regards to scoring the script, everything from $a=FUNCTION($b,$c,$d) up to and including ENDFUNCTION counts (except, of cource the comments, extraneous spaces and carriage return/linefeed characters).

I also believe that we will need a special assignment for Howard since he's beating everybody again. But, on the other hand, once he's posting his code on Monday afternoon EST, we can take it apart and see whether we can find ways for improvement.

Hint for writing the UDF: Start writing a standard UDF with understandable variable names before shortening everything by renaming variable names and concatenating multiple lines into one.

[ 09 June 2002, 15:53: Message edited by: sealeopard ]
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