"Chris Barker" <chrishbarker at home.net> wrote in message news:3B8D7378.A8E35CCB at home.net... ... > >(just as there are some binary fp numbers that aren't decimal-representable). > > Actually, I don't think that is true, as I learned on this list. I think Right, and that's easy to prove -- that's because 2 is a factor of 10, of course. Alex