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<node id="1006338" title="Re: Determining if a rational number terminates" created="2012-11-29 14:14:41" updated="2012-11-29 14:14:41">
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herveus</author>
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Howdy!
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What you really mean is "does this rational number's decimal expansion have a form that ends with zeros?". 1/10 has two forms: 0.1000000000... and 0.099999999999... They are equal. 
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yours,&lt;BR&gt;
Michael
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