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If you'd like to continue the pattern beyond 52 digits, just keep adding 9s to the original fraction... 1/9999999999998 = 1.0000000000002 0000000000004 0000000000008 0000000000016 0000000000032 0000000000064 0000000000128 0000000000256 0000000000512 0000000001024 0000000002048 0000000004096 0000000008192 0000000016384 0000000032768 0000000065536 0000000131072 00000002621440... × 10^-13



For the fibonacci, add a 9 on both sides of the denomator

1/998999 1/99989999 1/9999899999

To get more 0 spacing and avoid overflow


This should be denominator ;-)


interestingly, this works the other way around too: 1/98 = 0. 01 02 04 08 16 32 65...

and even further? 1/8 = 0.125


That's because 1=1

If I'm not mistaken. We should utilize the self-similarity much more often.




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