> 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

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