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Find Friendly Fractions! (Posted on 2004-11-24) Difficulty: 2 of 5
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?

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Some Thoughts some thoughts iv Comment 17 of 17 |
(In reply to some thoughts iii by K Sengupta)

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1/3=0.3
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1/33333333333 = 0.00000000003

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1/9=0.1
                                   _____________
1/11111111111=0.00000000001

                       ______________
1/21649 = 0.00004619151
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1/4619151 = 0.00000021649

                     ______________
1/64947=0.00001539717
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1/1539717 = 0.00000064947

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1/513239 = 0.00000194841
                         ______________
1/194841 = 0.00000513239



Edited on April 8, 2022, 12:11 am
  Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-04-08 00:07:28

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