Zooming in on infinitesimal 1-.9.. in a post-triumvirate era

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-273

  Katz, Karin Usadi ^a   Katz, Mikhail G ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decimal representation; Generic limit; Hypernatural number; Infinitesimal; Limit; Unital evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953696483     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-010-9239-4     Document Type: Article

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