Virgil
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Re: Wikipedia and fractions in other base then decimal
Posted:
Feb 11, 2013 3:00 AM
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In article
<03a59b13-1fbd-4098-91d7-f093d7cf5458@w4g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>,
JT <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia claims that 1/2 decimal 0,5 is 0,1 in ternary... and also
> 0,1 in binary.....
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> In reality it is 0.12 in ternary and 0.101 in binary
Shouldn't 0.12 in base three be the same as
1/3 + 2/3^2 = 3/9 + 2/9 = 5/9?
I make one-half expressed in base 3 to be 0.1111...
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