As Lassa fever ravages many parts of the country, killing patients and care givers, Moses Emorinken writes on why Nigeria has not been able to rid itself of the deadly virus It is often assumed to ...

These are decimal numbers, and dots above some of the digits make them recurring decimals. One dot means the digit under it repeats infinitely. In other words, it goes on forever (and ever and ever).

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE maths students studying converting decimals to fractions and percentages, converting fractions to decimals, converting percentages to decimals and ...

1/3 can be written as 0.33333… (with a string of 3s going on forever) and 4/9 can be written as 0.44444… . We call these recurring decimals. Use a calculator to see what 1/11, 2/11 and 3/11 are as ...