Why can't irrational numbers never be precisely represented in decimal form?

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Nerd15 Nerd15

16-09-2016
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Why can't irrational numbers never be precisely represented in decimal form?

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AL2006 AL2006 · Answer 1 · 2016-09-16T07:15:12+02:00

AL2006 AL2006

16-09-2016

An irrational number is a number that CAN't be written as

(a whole number) divided by (a whole number) .

If it could, then you could just do the division, and get a decimal.

But it can't. So you can't .

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