Apology accepted. For future reference, it is generally best not to accuse
people of dusting you off, when instead you are the one dusting them off.
Several poster's (including myself) suggested tests that would have revealed
this had you tried their suggestions.

Jerry

"dwright" wrote:

Yikes! My bad. I went back to the original data to confirm my statement
that nothing had ever been anything but an integer, and I was WRONG. The
actual original inputs we

442527.6
1477789.2
17942.4
130713.6
84052.8
524606.4
1724961.6
93585.6

Hence, my premise was wrong. I apologise to the community for my error.