off topic but please forgive me me and answer

[Tim Chase]

superpollo wrote:
> how much is one half times one half?


Uh, did you try it at the python prompt?  If not, here's the answer:

  0.1b * 0.1b = 0.01b

Now all you need is to find the recent thread that converts 
binary floats to decimal floats ;-)

-tkc