We are currently living in a world where computers are used by almost all people and applications but do we know how computers understand and communicate? Computer language uses zeros and ones to ...

A recurring decimal exists when decimal numbers repeat forever. For example, \(0. \dot{3}\) means 0.333333... - the decimal never ends. Dot notation is used with recurring decimals. The dot above the ...

Students around the world often dislike mathematics and eagerly await the day when they won’t have to struggle with long, complicated calculations. While the hate is widespread, a comprehensive ...

Q. Thanks for your advice in the September 2001 issue on converting fractions in Excel into decimal values. But how about those of us who need to do the reverse—that is, convert decimal values into ...

The conversion of a decimal number to its base 8 equivalent is started by the repeated division method. Divide the base 10 number by 8 and extract the remainders. The first remainder will be the LSD, ...

Dot notation is used with recurring decimals. The dot above the number shows which numbers recur, for example \(0.5\dot{7}\) is equal to 0.5777777... and \(0.\dot{2}\dot{7}\) is equal to 0.27272727 ...