periodic decimal
Americannoun
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“All you have to re-member is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. “This is the craziest family.”
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
“All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. See? So 3/7 is 0.428571.”
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
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