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how do you type the line over a repeating number?

Posted 10 years ago

how do you type the line over a repeating number?

POSTED BY: Rinda Seymour
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Try:

OverBar[3333]
POSTED BY: Jesse Friedman

Are you looking to use a number like 0.33333... in your code and have it treated as 1/3? Are you using Mathematica or Wolfram|Alpha?

Here is an article about how to write repeating decimals in Wolfram|Alpha:

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/07/27/repeating-decimals-in-wolframalpha/

Repeating Decimals can always be written as a fraction. There is some code for this online already:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5200617/how-can-i-make-a-working-repeating-decimal-representation-of-a-rational-number

POSTED BY: Sean Clarke
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