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How can you tell if a unit fraction will terminate or reoccur without using a calculator?
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All unit fractions will either terminate or reoccur. For example terminates, while reoccurs.
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You can figure out if it will terminate or reoccur without a calculator by seeing if the denominator can be made up using the prime factors of , which are and .
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So for example take and terminates. However if we look at we cannot make using 's or 's, so we know it reoccurs.
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Why do you think the prime factors of 10 are important?
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