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Could someone please tell me whether or not QB represents floating-point variables according to the IEEE standard? E.g. the single-precision standard (32 bit) says that values are represented as: S / EEEEEEEE / FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF and the lowest representable numbers have absolute value equal to...

I've now (eventually!) found that it does give the version somewhere, under HELP/ABOUT. It's version 1.1.

Chris

You can also find it in HELP/CONTENTS or you can look at the bottom of the screen before you hit any keys or click the mouse. Quickbasic 4.5 has the line "Version 4.5 Differences" Quickbasic 7.1 has "QBX Memory and Capacity" QBasic does not say "Quickbasic" anywhere...so that's QBasic V1.1, and it ...