>> In the physical world "a miss is as good as a mile" In the physical world, you don't need to get anywhere NEAR an infinite number of 9s after your decimal point for .999... to be "equal to" 1.0 Say you're talking meters - at about 10 9s ("0.9999999999 m") you're about one atomic diameter from 1.0 BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.