0.1

Dan Rice rice at cs.swarthmore.edu
Sun Oct 16 04:56:46 AEST 1988


In article <13983 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>If you want to get *really* ridiculous, 0.1 is irrational in irrational
>bases, but I am not sure those count :-) .  But Tom Neff is right (and
>I missed that error in my first followup).
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>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
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	0.1 may have a non-repeating representation in some irrational bases,
but it is certainly rational regardless of how one chooses to write it...

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