| Number Magic |
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What is 'Repeating Decimal' ? |
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A repeating decimal is one in which some sequence of digits is endlessly repeated. |
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Repeating Decimal can also be called as Recurring Decimal. |
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For example : |
1/3 = 0.3333333.... =  |
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are repeating decimals. The bar over the number is a shorthand way of the showing those numbers are repeated.
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All rational numbers have either finite decimal expansions or repeating decimals.
However, irrational numbers, neither terminate nor become periodic.
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