You are cutting a rectangular piece of fabric in half along the diagonal. The fabric meaures 28 inches wide and 1/4 yards long.
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We can employ a simple repeated decimal trick:
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Alternatively, we can compute the partial sum of the series.
As , the second term vanishes and we're left with
. Notice that this is really just a more formal version of the earlier trick.