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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decimal in which a pattern of one or more digits is repeated indefinitely, for example, 0.353535 …
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- noun mathematics A
decimal representation of areal number that, at some point, becomesperiodic (and repeats the same sequence of digits indefinitely)
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- noun a decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely
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