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Definition of Recurring decimal
1. Noun. A decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurring Decimal
Literary usage of Recurring decimal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The reason of proceeding in this way will appear if, taking any mixed recurring
decimal, we multiply it by as many tens as there are decimal places, ..."
2. A Course of Pure Mathematics by Godfrey Harold Hardy (1908)
"Show that a pure recurring decimal is always equal to a proper fraction whose
... A decimal with m non-recurring and n recurring decimal figures is equal to ..."
3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"Circulating or recurring decimal. A decimal in which certain digits are ...
TV recurring decimal can be expressed as a fraction, the numerator of which is ..."
4. Higher Algebra: A Sequel to Elementary Algebra for Schools by Henry Sinclair Hall, Samuel Ratcliffe Knight (1894)
"The general rule for reducing any recurring decimal to a vulgar fraction may ...
To find the value of a recurring decimal. Let P denote the figures which do ..."
5. Mathematical Questions and Solutions (1867)
"... of the recurring decimal which is equal to _ may be complementary. - [By the
period of a number is meant the number of digits in the ..."
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