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| | PlanetMath: p-adic canonical form |
 | | (You may check the first by adding 1, and the last by multiplying by 5 =...000101.) All 2-adic rational numbers have periodic binary expansion. |
 | | Similarly as the decimal (according to Leibniz: decadic) expansions of irrational real numbers are aperiodic, the proper 2-adic numbers also have aperiodic binary expansion, for example the 2-adic fractional number |
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