On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Kragen Sitaker wrote: > How many decimal digits are needed to make sure that 3 * (1/3) is > indistinguishable from 1? moshe-bombei:/home/moshe>python Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 21 2000, 14:52:33) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> (1.0/3)*3 == 1 1 Less then 17