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How can you determine wheter the decimal form of a radical represents its exact value?

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It's pretty hard to do that. If you know what radical base it is (say I know I'm going to have a √3 in my answer) then you can divide the decimal (let's say I have 0.866025404...) by the base number in order to get the constant in front of the radical (0.866025404 / √3 ≈ 0.5 = 1/2 → √(3)/2).
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