998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals - Numberphile
There has been some internet buzz about 998001, so Numberphile sheds some light on matters. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ This video features Dr James Grime and we...
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So the latest mathematical fact taking the internet by storm, well, you may have seen it. Let's check this out. I don't know if you have seen it. It's been all over the internet. I'm going to take 1 divided by 998,001. If you take that fraction, what you get, if you do the decimal for it, you get something rather remarkable. You get every single three-digit number. It starts with 0 point, and it goes 0, 0, 0. So that's 0. And it goes 0, 0, 1. There's 1. 0, 0, 2-- 0, 0, 3-- 0, 0, 4-- 0, 0, 5. And it will give you every single there-digit number except for one. It doesn't give you 998. Every single three-digit number except 998. OK, so let's go on. So it goes 6, 7, skip a few. Then it'll go 9, 9, 6-- 9, 9, 7....
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So the latest mathematical fact taking the internet by storm, well, you may have seen it. Let's check this out. I don't know if you have seen it. It's been all over the internet. I'm going to take 1 divided by 998,001. If you take that fraction, what you get, if you do the decimal for it, you get something rather remarkable. You get every single three-digit number. It starts with 0 point, and it goes 0, 0, 0. So that's 0. And it goes 0, 0, 1. There's 1. 0, 0, 2-- 0, 0, 3-- 0, 0, 4-- 0, 0, 5. And it will give you every single there-digit number except for one. It doesn't give you 998. Every single three-digit number except 998. OK, so let's go on. So it goes 6, 7, skip a few. Then it'll go 9, 9, 6-- 9, 9, 7....
