Quotient 1.4 review

Have you ever wondered what happens to the quotient of a division equation that goes off the screen of your calculator, such as 1/7? How long is it? Does it repeat? It does indeed repeat.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 131K Developer: Andrew Price: $0.00 Updated: 08 Jan 2007

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Have you ever wondered what happens to the quotient of a division equation that goes off the screen of your calculator, such as 1/7? How long is it? Does it repeat?
It does indeed repeat. It’s what is known as a repeating decimal—a portion of the decimal repeats itself infinitely—as in, 1/7 equals 0.142857142857142857…… In this case, “142857? is the repetend, the smallest repeating chunk.

This program writes the quotient (result) of any division equation—to a user-specified level of decimal precision (which can extend into the hundreds of thousands and beyond)—into a text field, from which it can be copied to the Clipboard.

There’s even an option to export the whole calculation to a text file (one can print the equation, as well).

Quotient is a Universal Binary program and requires Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” or above.