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["W Lake" <wlake@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Glen and Michael for your assurance re exponents of negative numbers.
The "locals" here were quite adamant about Excel's infallibility.

brute force /adj./ Describes a primitive programming style, one in which the
programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or
her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of
scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large
ones. The term can also be used in reference to programming style:
brute-force programs are written in a heavy-handed, tedious way, full of
repetition and devoid of any elegance or useful abstraction

I found this little definition of a programming style that I'm having a hard
time escaping. Maybe it's familiar to others. <GO>

Best regards to all

Walter