Recurring Decimal Representations
Some real numbers have decimal expansions that eventually get into loops, endlessly repeating a sequence of one or more digits:
- 1/3 = 0.33333...
- 1/7 = 0.142857142857...
- 1318/185 = 7.1243243243...
Every time this happens the number is still a rational number (i.e. can alternatively be represented as a ratio of an integer and a positive integer).
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