On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:13:03PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *3* Interesting fact of the day:  Using binary, it is possible to
>     exactly represent some numbers that cannot be exactly represented
>     in base-10.

Can you name such a number?  This is un-intuitive to me, since 2 is
a factor of 10.

-- 
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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