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Old Nov 6, 2006 | 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by RicoD
There wouldn't be a written fraction for it considering it goes on forever h: Imagine all the erasing you would have to do :eek3:
any repeating decimal can be written in fraction form
thus .999... in fraction form is 9/9 or 1
there is a simple way to produce the fraction form of a repeating decimal, it isnt really hard at all, but it confuses the shit out of people at first

i cant beleive im arguing about math on the interent, i think i just raised to a new level of nerdom
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