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EXPLORING RATIONALITY, PART 2

IN MY CONTINUING exploration of rationality, I offer the completed Decimal Exploration table of rational numbers 1/2 through 1/17 expressed in decimal form. Sorry about 1/17. I cannot speak for … Continue reading

January 27, 2017 · 3 Comments

EXPLORING RATIONALITY, PART 1

THE WORD “RATIONAL” is wondrous. One meaning is “having reason or understanding, balanced.” Another, in mathematics, describes the ratio of two numbers, a fraction. In my continuing fractional fun, here … Continue reading

January 26, 2017 · 1 Comment