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Repeating decimal   /rɪpˈitɪŋ dˈɛsəməl/   Listen
Repeating decimal

noun
1.
A decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely.  Synonyms: circulating decimal, recurring decimal.






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"Repeating decimal" Quotes from Famous Books



... been studied by Rollin T. Chamberlin of Chicago. Much of the vast area involved is not yet well explored; but over it all, so far as it has been fully examined, the same lithological and stratigraphical structures reappear with the persistence of a repeating decimal. And were it not for the exigencies of the theory of Successive Ages, this whole region of some five or six thousand square miles would be considered as only an ordinary example, on a rather large scale, of undisturbed horizontal stratification cut up by erosion into mountains of ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price



Words linked to "Repeating decimal" :   decimal, recurring decimal, decimal fraction



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