A Conversation for Rational Numbers
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Stealth Munchkin Started conversation Sep 11, 2000
Shouldn't "There is often more than one way of writing the same rational number. " read 'There is *always*...'?
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J'au-æmne Posted Oct 5, 2000
very good point. 
this is what comes of letting a physicist write maths entries...
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Oct 11, 2000
You may want to include something to show that integers can be written as both integers and infinite recurring decimals eg 1=0.9999...
(Proof available on request!)
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The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Oct 12, 2000
The easiest proof - the decimal expansion of 1/3 is 0.3333...
3*(1/3)=1, therefore 3*0.3333...=0.999999...=1.
There is at least one other proof, involving geometric sequences, butI'd have to look it up.
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