Backups, Calculator anomaly

[Charles Day]

That 4 1/4 billion is suspiciously close to the maximum 32-bit
unsigned integer value (4294967295).

-Charles


On Nov 28, 2007 4:46 AM, JUNIPER <snijuniper at comcast.net> wrote:
>    Sound advice. I save GC to a desktop "Finance" folder, and copy from
>    time to time to a desktop "backup" folder. Everything is also saved to
>    an external hard drive, plus I save critical data every so often to a
>    removable SanDisk, which I keep stashed away from my desk. I also
>    consider storing saved data outside the house. (Years ago I learned a
>    painful lesson about the importance of backups!)
>    On another matter: Tools -> financial calculator anomaly... Trying to
>    find out how much sooner my mortgage would be paid off by increasing my
>    payment, no matter what values I use I get an enormous and wrong
>    "payment Periods" result. For example, entering $10,000 as the "Present
>    Value," 6% as the interest, $1139.15 as the payment, and zero as the
>    "future value" I get 4,294,967,287 "Payment Periods." In fact, no
>    matter what values I use I get results of 4 1/4 billion or so.
>    Steve J