Sentences with phrase «decimal expansion»

These consist of the rationals and the irrationals — numbers like the square root of 2, and pi, whose decimal expansion never ends and never trails off in a fixed, repeating pattern.

While the decimal expansion of p runs to infinity â $ «3.1415926535... â $ «we can calculate it to any degree of accuracy we like.

It is fairly easy to show with arithmetic that the fractional parts — and their decimal expansions — have to agree perfectly, no matter how many digits you compute.

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Not exact matches

In standard cosmology, the exponential expansion of the universe called cosmic inflation began perhaps as early as 10 - 35 seconds after the beginning of time — that's a decimal point followed by 34 zeros before a 1.

The CalculaTees expansion pack includes numbers from 0 - 9 (plus a decimal point) and will add more options for the ongoing AlphabeTees / CalculaTees contests where PlayStation Home users and their friends answer daily trivia by spelling out the answer with their clothing, taking a group photo, and then uploading directly to the AlphabeTees competition entry portal (located under the Central Plaza Jumbotron).