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> Christer Ericson
> <christer_ericson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
>
> > In article <dbjr4k$10t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> rusin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > says...
> > > So the "amazing pattern" seen for sevenths is
> also seen for seventeenths
> > > [...]
> > > 1/7 = 0.142857142857...
> > > 1/17 =
> .058823529411764705882352941176470588235294117647...
> >
> > Even more "amazing" is that if you split the
> periodic
> > part in half and sum the halves you get all nines:
> >
> > 142 + 857 = 999,
> > 05882352 + 94117647 = 99999999.
> >
> > This even works for numbers that don't have 10 as a
> > primitive root, e.g. for 1/13 = 0.076923... we get:
> >
> > 076 + 923 = 999.
>
> What about 1/31?
>
> Phil
> --
> If a religion is defined to be a system of ideas that
> contains unprovable
> statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is
> not only a religion, it
> is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
> -- John Barrow
Because I like your name.
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