Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by hammock on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:50PM (#3515106)

But it would lack a 9998.

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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by jeffcapeshop on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:57PM (#3515132)

then i suppose we need 1/9999800001 !

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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by jQueryIsAwesome on Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:04PM (#3515445)

But it would lack... just kidding.

Another way to get the real consecutive numbers is to make a rest so we avoid that annoying increment at the end:

1/998001 - 1e-1000

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