wnoise comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 19 April 2012 10:05:47PM 4 points [-]

Every rational number has two infinite decimal expansions.

No. Every terminating number has two infinite decimal expansions, one ending with all zeros, the other with all nines.

1/3, for instance is only representable as 0.333... , while 1/8th is representable as 0.124999... and 0.125.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2012 10:19:39PM 0 points [-]

Oh right, thanks for catching that.

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