recurring decimal
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Find the value of the recurring decimal 2.214214....
From A Review of Algebra by Romeyn Henry Rivenburg
Three," said Katherine taking one last look at the empty horizon, then seating herself in front of her friend, "three is a recurring decimal.
From A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr
They are, they think, in presence of a recurring decimal, and they are not going to spend life in the effort to resolve it.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
The trouble is that every science has a beginning but not an end, like a recurring decimal.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
We might as well make an infinitesimal series of fractions or a perpetually recurring decimal the object of our worship.
From Sophist by Plato