> I never claimed to be a math whiz, but wouldn't ie be impossible to reach > zero my dividing any number repeately by 50%? Granted, you can end up > with a lot of numbers to the right of the decimal point, and the result > gets ahrd to understand - worse: is counter-intuitive.
Zeno's Paradox. Totally intuitive, but wrong. 8-) After all, 1+1=3 for sufficiently large values of 1. -- db