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Find Friendly Fractions! (Posted on 2004-11-24)

Can you explain the relationship between 27 and 37 that produces 1/27=0.037037037... and 1/37=0.027027027...? (That is, each number forms the other number's repeating decimal.)

Can you provide other similar examples, possibly with more or fewer digits?

See The Solution Submitted by Old Original Oskar!

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some thoughts ii

| Comment 15 of 17 |

(In reply to some thoughts by K Sengupta)

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1/33 = 0.03 and,

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1/303 = 0.0033

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1/369=0.00271 and

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1/271 = 0.00369

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1/41 = 0.02439 and,

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1/2439 = 0.00041

Edited on April 6, 2022, 12:31 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-04-06 12:25:00

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