单词 | interminate decimal |
释义 | > as lemmasinterminate decimal b. Arithmetic. interminate decimal, a fractional number that cannot be exactly expressed by tenths, tenths of tenths, and so on, but either repeats, as .·3 = ⅓, circulates, as .·14285.7 = 1/ 7, or continues without any definite order, as the decimal in the square root of 2, 3, 5 or other non-square number, in the value of π, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > decimal > recurring repetend1714 repeater1721 interminate decimal1728 recurring decimal1748 circulate1769 circulating decimal1838 recurrer1875 1728 J. Colson in Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 163 In this last Example the Numbers are what I call interminate, or Approximations only. 1866 Arithm. Irish Nat. Schools 178 We cannot always obtain an exact quotient, when we divide one number by another:—in such a case, what is called an interminate, or..a recurring, or circulating decimal is produced. < as lemmas |
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