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When students learn about decimals, they’re told that every fraction either has a terminating decimal expansion or a repeating decimal expansion. The previous post gives a constructive proof of the converse: given a repeating fraction (in any base) it shows how to find what rational number it corresponds to. Maybe you learned this so long […] The post Corollary of a well-known fact first appeared on John D. Cook....