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Postby bellringer1953 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:19 am

shostakovich wrote:It means something may be wrong with your 32 place calculator.
108/815 is a rational number. It should come to an end or have an indefinitely repeating sequence of numbers. I would expect the pattern to repeat within 32 digits, but it doesn't. Maybe I shouldn't expect that. It also can't end on a 9. Rounding not allowed. How did you calculate it?
Shos, who also needs to get a life.


How did I calculate it?? Apparently not well!!
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Postby Shapley » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:26 am

I used the calculator supplied with windows and get the same answer. I suppose I could calculate it out long hand, but I'm really not that concerned...
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Postby shostakovich » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:01 pm

Actually, there was a little irony to my comment. If 2 people get the same answer to 32 digits, that's good enough for me. But that's "rounded". I was just fussing over the fact that rational numbers either end or repeat some sequence indefinitely. I'm very surprised that no repitition occurred in 32 decimal places. I wonder how many places are necessary to find the repeating sequence. The denominator was a mere 3 digits.
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