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Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:

> As the above link notes, since integers on most machines are 
> twos-complement and not sign-magnitude, it doesn't work right for 
> negative floats.
>
> Working around this isn't possible without knowing it's actually a 
> float (in which case a floating point compare could just be used, 
> anyhow).

My mistake. I shouldn't be posting first thing Monday morning.