Hey that's cool, and they're much like my favorite such pair, 1/27=0.037037037... and 1/37=0.027027027... I'll add them to my numbers pages! - Robert mrob.com/pub/math/numbers-2.html#l2_54 mrob.com/pub/math/numbers-6.html#la39_37 On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:31, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
In the US [...] Prior to 1975, a centimeter would have been an exact 0.3937 inches. This means that an inch would have been
1/0.3937 = 2.54 000508 001016 002032 004064 ...
centimeters. Observe the nice doubling pattern of the 6-digit blocks.
After 1975, the inch was precisely 2.54 centimeters. Now the centimeter is
1/2.54 = 0.3937 007874 015748 031496 062992 ...
inches. Almost amazingly, we find the same 6-digit block doubling pattern here.
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