[Blindmath] what's the braille notation for recurringdecimal point in nemeth code?

Fri Aug 5 13:39:46 UTC 2011

Yes. Sorry I was in a hurry and should have been more specific. It is a
visual bar over the numbers that indicate the repeating decimal.

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From: Susan Mooney [mailto:susanannemooney at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] what's the braille notation for recurringdecimal
point in nemeth code?

Oh!  Now I get it!!!!  In print they put a bar over the portion of the
digits which are repeating!

Here's an example.  Print is 1.37 with the bar over 37.  In braille you
would write it this way with no spaces:

3456 46 5 then you would write the 37 and close it with 126 156 12456

Again, there would be no spaces.  the dot 5 tells you that a "modified
expression" is coming up and the 126 tells you there is a bar over the 37.
the 156 12456 tells you that is the end of the modified expression.  Some
people refer to it as "closing the expression."  (To remind myself about
doing that, I always say, "Now close it" in my head.)

That is the long way of writing it.  You may also see a contracted form of a
modified expression.  For example, suppose you had .46 in print with the bar
over the 6.  You could write it as this is braille (again, no spaces):  3456
46 256 235 156

To sum it up:  the dot 5 tells you that something's changing, something's
coming up.  You put that *before* whatever it is that you are
changing/modifying.  The 126 tells you that it's a bar over the number(s)
and then the 12456 terminates or ends the modification or change.

I hope that helps!

Susan M.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Iqbal Hosen <iqbalrtbd at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi, patti,
> i asked for braille dots for recurring decimal point not a math 
> example. i know that decimal point in nemeth is dot 4, 6. but i asked 
> for recurring decimal point. sighted people say there is separate sign 
> in print. so i am confused about decimal point and recurring decimal 
> point.
> hi, i am confused about another sign and that is difference between sign.
> sighted people say that it looks like minus sign. i would be very 
> happy if you could please help me in this regard.
> best wishes and regards.
> iqbal. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti Mitchell" < 
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> recurringdecimal point in nemeth code?
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>
>
>> A repeating decimal example below
>> 3.142857   #3]<142857:           (a repeating decimal)
>>
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>> I will look it up
>>
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>> decimal point in nemeth code?
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>> hi,
>> is there anyone using nemeth braille code in this group? i would be 
>> very happy if anyone could please tell  me the braille notation for 
>> recurring decimal point in neneth code.
>> regards.
>> iqbal.
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