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Minor Problem
I suspect this has to do with binary to decimal conversion.
Minor Problem
Actually, a number is rational if it can be expressed as p/q with both p
Minor Problem
Hey! Where did the comment I was replying to go? Someone had commented that 1/3 was irrational when expressed as a decimal...
Right concept - wrong name
It's not that 0.7 isn't "rational" in base-2, it's that it "doesn't have a finite base-2 expansion." As far as I know, there isn't a widely used one-name word for this category. |
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