| Subject: Re: Interesting number. |
| From: Odysseus |
| Date: 25/01/2006, 07:07 |
Knut Arvid Keilen wrote:
Input the number 243,75 (or a . rather than a , outside the U.S.) in Windows
Calculator or the similar.
Most of the English-speaking world, not just the U.S., uses the point
after the units but commas after the thousands, millions, and so on.
It's certainly the usual Canadian practice--other than in
French-language material, which almost always uses the 'continental'
comma and thin-spaces style.
Divide this number on itself (1 / 243.75). The answer given is
0,0041025641025641025641025641025641 .
I don't see your point. Of course the reciprocal of 243.75 can be written
1 / (975/4) = 4/975 = 16/3900 = 0.01 * 16/39 = 0.01 * .410256 repetend.
The thirty-ninths (like the thirteenths, among others) all have
decimal representations that endlessly repeat patterns of six digits;
in fact 1/39 uses the same sequence as 16/39, just 'rolled' three places:
1/39 = .025641 repetend
2/39 = .051282 "
3/39 = 1/13 = .076923 "
4/39 = .102564 "
5/39 = .128205 "
...
You can see already that sequences get 'recycled' with different offsets.
Am I missing something about your number other than this property,
something unusual? Maybe even something on-topic?
--
Odysseus