circulating decimal

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   a decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely

   Synonymsrecurring decimalrepeating decimal

   Broaderdecimal fraction

Questions about circulating decimal

What does circulating decimal mean?

circulating decimal means "a decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely".

What is another word for circulating decimal?

Close synonyms include recurring decimal, repeating decimal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circulating decimal a common word?

circulating decimal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.