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Meanings of repeating decimal in English

Portuguese
dizima periodica

A decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely.

        dizima periodica
        Usage of repeating decimal in English
        1
        A repeating decimal in the answer might kill him.
        Literary Lapses
        2
        Then, when he was in third grade, a teacher, recognizing Yun's potential, explained to him that the repeating decimal 0.9999… is exactly equal to one.
        Wired
        3
        True, America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend- arepeatingdecimal.
        The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
        Translations for repeating decimal