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Re: floating point arithmetic problems
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gciriani |
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Re: floating point arithmetic problems |
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Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:03:38 -0700 (MST) |
Yes but the repeating decimals are incorrect too. If we use the notation
0.(xxxx) for the repeating decimals, we have:
1/7 = 0.(142857)
2/7 = 0.(285714)
3/7 = 0.(428571)
4/7 = 0.(571428)
5/7 = 0.(714285)
6/7 = 0.(857142)
I apologize for straying from the OP.
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