Subject: Re: double line bug & nautical miles<br/>
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 08:19<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-241752867">Michael: <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; is that the use of 5 ninths as a fraction was commonplace & not the<br/>
 </span></blockquote>showstopper i imagined grant was making it out to be when he said<br/>
aargh or whatever it was he said a few messages back<br/>
I guess I thought it was something of a showstopper, but not nearly as<br/>
much as a repeating decimal would be. The fact that 0.5555 recurring<br/>
is at least a rational number slides things towards the plausible.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>