Posted by James Durbin on 1999-05-10
Luke Jordan wrote: > return it in its decimal form. That's really easy, but the hard part was > that if the fraction had repeating digits, you had to put them in brackets, > e.g.: > 1/3 = 0.3333333 = 0.(3). > This brackets bit has me completely stumped. Any ideas? The only way I can think of doing this is to use long division, and checking for duplicates... I've decided to make myself a function in C++ to do this just for the hell of it. :) I'll gladly give out the source to anyone that wants it. (when I get finnished with it of course. :) ) /* From: James H. Durbin Email: divine-bovine@xxxx.xxx */
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