Back in the 1980s, the statistics package -- application, really, but this was before that word had become wide-spread in academic environments for that sort of

Back in the 1980s, the statistics package -- application, really, but this was before that word had become wide-spread in academic environments for that sort of thing -- Statgraphics used -32768[1] for "Missing Value", i.e. "NULL". Had to fudge our actual -32768 values to -32767. ___ [1]: The signed-integer value of a word full of set bits ('1' values) on a 16-bit twos-complement processor like the Intel 80286? Something like that.