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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by masak on Friday January 27, 2012 @04:31AM (#3517697)
Well, being a rational number, it has to wrap around somewhere. And since 999 + 001 == 000 (with the caveats for carries that people have explained elsewhere), it makes sense for it to wrap around at that point.
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