The Number -65536. 3. The number -65536 can fit into the 'small integer' format as 00 FF 00 00 00. It is then the 'limiting number', the one which when twos complemented overflows (cf. 80 hex in a simple one byte or 7 bit system, i.e. -128 decimal, which when twos comple- mented still gives 80 hex i.e. -128 decimal since the positive number 128 decimal does not fit into the system). 4. Some awareness of this may have inspired the abortive attempt to create 00 FF 00 00 00 in 'truncate'. It is abortive since it does not even survive the INT routine of which 'truncate' is a part. It just leads to the mistake INT (-65536) equals -1. 5. But the main error is that this number has been allowed to arise from 'short addition' of two smaller negative integers and then simply put on the stack as 00 FF 00 00 00. The system cannot cope with this number. The solution proposed in 'addition' is to form the full five byte floating-point form at once; i.e. test for the number first, at about byte 3032, as follows: 3032 PUSH AF Save the sign byte in A. 3033 INC A Make any FF in A into 00. 3034 OR E Test all 3 bytes now for zero. 3035 OR D 3036 JR NZ,3040,ADD-STORE Jump if not -65536. 3038 POP AF Clear the stack. 3039 LD (HL),+80 Enter 80 hex into second byte. 303B DEC HL Point to the first byte. 303C LD (HL),+91 Enter 91 hex into the first byte. 303E JR 3049,ADD-RSTOR Jump to set the pointer and exit. 3040 ADD-STORE POP AF Restore the sign byte in A. 3041 LD (HL),A Store it on the stack. 3042 INC HL Point to the next location. 3043 LD (HL),E Store the low byte of the result. 3044 INC HL Point to the next location. 3045 LD (HL),D Store the high byte of the result. 3046 DEC HL Move the pointer back to 3047 DEC HL address the first byte of the 3048 DEC HL result. 3049 ADD-RSTOR POP DE Restore STKEND to DE. 304A RET Finished. 6. The above amendment (i.e. 15 extra bytes) with the ommission of bytes 3223 to 323E inclusive from 'truncate' should solve the problems. It would be nice to be able to test this. The calls of INT-STORE should not lead to 00 FF 00 00 00 being stacked. In 'multiply' the number will lead to overflow if it occurs, since 65536 will set the carry flag; so 'long' multiplication will be used. As noted at 30E5, the 5 bytes starting there could probably be omitted if the above amendments were made. 'Negate' avoids stacking 00 FF 00 00 00 by treating zero separately and returning it unaltered. Truncate deals separately with -65536, as noted above. SGN stores only 1 and -1.