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Topic: Wikipedia and fractions in other base then decimal
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JT

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Wikipedia and fractions in other base then decimal
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 2:33 AM
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Wikipedia claims that 1/2 decimal 0,5 is 0,1 in ternary... and also
0,1 in binary.....

In reality it is 0.12 in ternary and 0.101 in binary

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