in reply to Determining if a rational number terminates

Howdy!

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.

yours,
Michael
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Re^2: Determining if a rational number terminates
by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 29, 2012 at 20:14 UTC

    They are equal, but one is generally recognised as the more canonical representation.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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