However, zero will be a limit --- and you need to multiply by 50% (expressed as .5) to divide by 2. If you divide by .5, the result will be an ever increasing value. (10 / .5 = 100 / 5 = 20)
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: QUERY CAPABILITY question > I never claimed to be a math whiz, but wouldn't ie be impossible to reach > zero my dividing any number repeately by 50%? Granted, you can end up > with a lot of numbers to the right of the decimal point, and the result > gets ahrd to understand - worse: is counter-intuitive. Zeno's Paradox. Totally intuitive, but wrong. 8-) After all, 1+1=3 for sufficiently large values of 1. -- db
