On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:47:14PM CDT, Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote: : >Richard Gilmore wrote: : >> : >>But mathematically 10.4.1 and 10.4.10 are the same amount. : : There is actually a lot to all of the dotted decimal stuff that's strange. And in contrast, most countries (especially European) use the comma as a decimal separator. So those nations would see "10.4.1" and "10.4.10" as two strings, not two oddball fractional decimal numbers. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/