Re: [Mid] A lesson in Algorism

> When you perform some math processes, you can actually curtail an
> infinite series and make it a finite, albeit long, series of digits.

        OK, Midair, yer Grace and whoever else wants in on this, please
explain [off-list, unless this is also a period "game"] how multiplying
an
infinite number [in this case, .9... ] by 10 makes it finite, rather
than 10
times what it was before.

                 ~Krysta / Shandra
        whogrokstrig,butisabitlostafterthat

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Received on Fri Jun 11 21:57:36 1999