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Somebody got a digit of pi wrong... tsk tsk.
*Any decimal representation which terminates (comes to an end), like 6.023, because this is just a way of writing a fraction (in this case, 6023/1000)
*Any decimal representation which terminates (comes to an end), like 6.023, because this is just a way of writing a fraction (in this case, 6023/1000)
*Any decimal representation which repeats or recurs, like 1.86292929292929..., because these can be shown to be fractions
*Any decimal representation which repeats or recurs, like 1.86292929292929..., because these can be shown to be fractions
*[[Irrational numbers]], like <math>\sqrt{10} = 3.162277660168...</math>π = 3.1415926525..., whose decimal representations never repeat or terminate.
*[[Irrational numbers]], like <math>\sqrt{10} = 3.162277660168...</math>π = 3.1415926535..., whose decimal representations never repeat or terminate.
==Formal definition==
==Formal definition==