TucanFullOfHoles answered Monday September 20 2004, 6:41 pm: terminating decimals are numbers that end, and repeating numbers are decimals that don't, like pi. Terminating: 0.5 Repeating: 0.66666666 . . . or in other words 2/3. get it? hope so. IM me at Tucanfullofholes if you have any other questions regarding math. its my forte. spelling is not. lol hope i helped. [ TucanFullOfHoles's advice column | Ask TucanFullOfHoles A Question ]
MFS answered Monday September 20 2004, 6:38 pm: Isn't this what your math class is for?
...anyway...
I assume you mean decimals?
If so, a repeating decimal is one that repeats the same number of number pattern over and over, for infinity... like 1/3 is 0.3333333333333-forever. That is a repeating decimal.
A number such as 1/2 = 0.5 is terminal, in that it ends - thus, it terminates. There is no repeating decimal place, like 0.27272727272727272727etc...
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