Infinite Decimals (Part 2)

A. Gardiner
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A. Gardiner: University of Birmingham, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter II.7 in Infinite Processes, 1982, pp 81-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chapter II.6 we stressed the tension between the familiar division process used to generate the decimal representation of a fraction like 3/40, and the (as yet) meaningless string of digits which results when we apply this same familiar division process to a fraction like 3/39 = 1/13, namely $$ \frac{1}{{13}} = .07692307692307692307 \ldots $$

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5654-0_9

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