In a message dated 05/18/2000 8:40:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, PieMan2000@aol.com writes: << there is the problem, first of all, the first line wil only work if C and X both equil 0 wich means that x=2x wont work because for that x must equil 1. >> x being 0 would make the equation x=2x work fine. 0=2(0) 0=0, that works fine