Re: [Mid] A lesson in Algorism

In a message dated 6/11/99 10:01:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
krystas@juno.com writes:

<<
         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.
>>

        The zero at the end of the series, however long curtails the series
of repeating digits. That's what the perfesser tole us'ns years ago. Remember
it clearly...same problem, during a series of similar problems.
                                
                                                                                
                        Andrew
From: DukeAndrew@aol.com
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Received on Sat Jun 12 03:32:03 1999