In other words, the decimal representation undergoes a right circular shift by one place.

Simon Stevin's work on decimal representation of all numbers in the 16th century prepared the ground for the real continuum.

In this case there is a terminating decimal representation.

A standard way of writing real numbers is by their decimal representation, such as:

With this type of decimal representation, not every expansion represents a number.

Note that 10001 is the binary, not decimal, representation of the desired result.

On the one hand, the decimal representation of a rational number is ultimately periodic, as explained below.

A decimal representation written with a repeating final 0 is said to terminate before these zeros.

Conversely, an irrational number always has a non-repeating decimal representation.

If p and q are primes other than 2 or 5, the decimal representation of the fraction has a specific period.