Decimal Expansion/Examples
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Examples of Decimal Expansions
Decimal Expansion of $17 / 10$
- $\dfrac {17} {10}$ has a decimal expansion of $1 \cdotp 7$.
Decimal Expansion of $9 / 100$
- $\dfrac 9 {100}$ has a decimal expansion of $0 \cdotp 09$.
Decimal Expansion of $1 / 6$
- $\dfrac 1 6$ has a decimal expansion of $0 \cdotp 1666 \ldots$.
$1 \cdotp 23999 \ldots$ is not a Decimal Expansion
- $1 \cdotp 23999 \ldots$
is not a decimal expansion as defined on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$.
This is because it ends in an infinite sequence of $9$s.
The number $1 \cdotp 23999 \ldots$ is equal to, and is best expressed as, $1 \cdotp 24$.