Wednesday, 4 January 2017

arithmetic - Repeating Decimal in different base

I've come across the following question.




Find 0.¯2046 as a base ten fraction.




I understand that is the question asked the repeating decimal in base 10, I would then say that:



x=0.¯20410




1000x=204.¯20410



999x=204



x=204999



Therefore, I can perform a similar task by doing this:



x=0.¯2046




216x=204.¯2046



216x=204



x=204216=1718



Is the following procedure correct? Since initially we had to multiply by 103 in base 10, I would then assume that you would have to multiply by 63, or 216 in base 6.

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