Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes: > Dude, didn't you take high-school math? 1/3 _is_ 0.33333... No, because at some point you will stop writing 3's, either out of boredom, exhaustion or because you need to pee. At that instant, you introduce a rounding error, making 3 * 1/3 = 0.99999999999... instead of 1.0