+130116 Straight from the Wikipedia's mouth.....
"While there are several notational conventions for representing repeating decimals, none of them are accepted universally. In the United States, the convention is generally to indicate a repeating decimal by drawing a horizontal line (a vinculum) above the repeated numerals (
). In mainland China, the convention is to place dots above the outermost numerals of the repeating digits (
). Another notation sometimes employed in Europe is to enclose the repeating digits in parentheses (
). Repeating decimals may also be represented by three periods (an ellipsis, e.g., 0.333…), although this method introduces uncertainty as to which digits should be repeated or even whether repetition is occurring at all, since such ellipses are also employed for irrational decimals such as 3.14159…"
Hey....they said it....I didn't !!!!
