recurring decimal

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noun
  1. Mathematics. repeating decimal.

Origin of recurring decimal

1
First recorded in 1795–1805

Words Nearby recurring decimal

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How to use recurring decimal in a sentence

  • We might as well make an infinitesimal series of fractions or a perpetually recurring decimal the object of our worship.

    Sophist | Plato
  • The positions of these balls clearly convert his figure into the recurring decimal .

    The Canterbury Puzzles | Henry Ernest Dudeney
  • And Squeith shall immediately be set to work on that recurring decimal.

    Twos and Threes | G. B. Stern
  • Its only a recurring decimal, and if we quickly put in the dot to stop the leakage, theres no need that it should ever recur.

    Twos and Threes | G. B. Stern
  • One might edge a wall-paper or fringe a robe with a recurring decimal.

    Alarms and Discursions | G. K. Chesterton

British Dictionary definitions for recurring decimal

recurring decimal

noun
  1. a rational number that contains a pattern of digits repeated indefinitely after the decimal point: Also called: circulating decimal, repeating decimal

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Scientific definitions for recurring decimal

recurring decimal

[ rĭ-kûrĭng ]


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