interestingly, this works the other way around too: 1/98 = 0. 01 02 04 08 16 32 ... | Hacker News

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		novaleaf on Jan 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128... interestingly, this works the other way around too: 1/98 = 0. 01 02 04 08 16 32 65... and even further? 1/8 = 0.125

X4 on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

That's because 1=1

If I'm not mistaken. We should utilize the self-similarity much more often.

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