Hello,

When reading the axis.texter documentation it took me quite a while to
figure out what the period argument does. Why on earth would a period
have an overline?? periods have to do with dots, why would we want to
put a overline over a dot? overline over a number?

After realising what it is good for I felt a bit silly. It made me
wonder what english speaking people call this. They all use a dot over
the last digit to indicate recurrence and say "zero point one
recurring three".

Does anyone know what the "proper" terminology is in english?

I would propose adding a sentence like "The period argument specifies
the formatting applied to recurring decimal numbers" to the
documentation so that half a sleep brits like me dont get confused ;)

tim
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