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Look at the decimal 0.1211222111222.... if the pattern continues, is this a repeating decimal? Explain.

 Oct 22, 2014

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I'm assuming that you mean  0.12 1122 111222 ...

This pattern does not repeat, because each block of digits gets longer; for a pattern to repeat, the same block of digits (such as 1234) must continue to repeat, in the original fashion, from there forever; for example:

198.72736 1234 1234 1234 1234...

 Oct 22, 2014
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I'm assuming that you mean  0.12 1122 111222 ...

This pattern does not repeat, because each block of digits gets longer; for a pattern to repeat, the same block of digits (such as 1234) must continue to repeat, in the original fashion, from there forever; for example:

198.72736 1234 1234 1234 1234...

geno3141 Oct 22, 2014

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