Bad Code (was Re: COBOL program)

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From: Adnan Yaqub
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 08:22

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Awhile ago when I worked for Allen-Bradley, my friends in the
Numerical Control group informed me of some code they had received
from a Japanese company they were doing a joint venture with.  It
seems that to get the absolute value of a number, they did the
following:
	abs_val = sqrt(val*val);
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Adnan Yaqub
Star Gate Technologies, 29300 Aurora Rd., Solon, OH, USA, +1 216 349 1860
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From: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
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Subject: Bad Code (was Re: COBOL program)
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Date: 14 Dec 89 08:22:14 GMT
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