Re: [math-fun] Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

Anyway, if y'all like this sort of thing, look at 1/998999.

Between some trivia I found some nice fractions in http://www.geometer.org/mathcircles/fractions.pdf (by Tom Davis) e.g. 1/998 = .001002004008016032064128256... and a fraction for .000100040009001600250036... (which?) what I could not find there but it also quite well-known: The decimal expansions of the multiples of 1/7 (and of inverses of so-called full reptend primes) are cyclic shifted versions of each other. There exists a simple card trick (which I found in a book of Martin Gardner) based on this fact. Christoph