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Well That's...Something: 1 Divided By 998001

January 24, 2012 / calculator, conspiracy, illuminati, impress your friends!, math, math was always my worst subject, neato, saving all the equations you need for the test in your graphing calculator, so let me get this clear -- the answer isn't 42?, that's not pi -- that's not even cake!, tricks

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Dividing 1 by 998001 gives every three digit number from 001 to 999 in order. Dividing 1 by 9801 will give every two digit number from 01 to 99 in order. Ooooooor you can type in 5318008 and show it to everyone upside down and we'll all have a laugh about it in Algebra before going back to playing drug dealer on our TI-82s (I went to high school in the 90's, kids -- we didn't have T-1000's or whatever the hell they're up to now).

Take One and Divide it By 998001 For Surprising Results [geekosystem]

Thanks to Donald, who felt obligated to include the whole joke equation that yields '55378008' in his tip and I don't blame him.

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There are Comments

  • Not really any magic, when you do the conversion of the repeating decimal 0.00010203...9596979900010203...95969799 ... you get 1020304...95969799 / 9999999...9999999 which just so happens to have so many common factors in the numerator and denominator that it simplifies to 1/998001.

  • The nerd in me got giddy reading this...Love little math tidbits like this.

  • If I did this 10 years ago when I was bored in class, it's not news...

  • 1/243 also gives a nice pattern.  (Credit goes to Richard Feynman)

  • i have a T-Infinity and Beyond

  • Mikko Rahikka

    nope, 998 is missing, the same thing with 98 in the other decimal expansion

    m

  • The Boss

    some people just see the pattern and assume it is followedfor every other number without any sort of proof bc he was playing some 5*8pixel resolution game instead of paying attention in math.

    Sad Stuff There Buddy

  • NoveltyFishHead

    Hey, any number can exist. You just need a big enough canvas and good knowledge/talent with numbers. oh and btw  0 ÷ 0 = 0

  • I've just had a nerdgasam! (That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.)

  • T-1000s. nice.

  • Yeah. They're up to.... TI 83 and 84s now. Seriously, that's what all my students have. The 85 and 86 were so much better for actual science. 

  • the 7's pattern is very interesting

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