....Fraid not,,,, there should be 4 dots for it to be an ellipsis at the end
of a sentence. :o)

Technically correct, however an argument can be made that

standard usage now includes the three (3) dot variant....

Similarly, substitution of numeric digits ( 0-9 ) for words is

formally unacceptable, but is such common usage now that

few bother to object...
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