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Originally posted by J Geoff:
an even better repeating decimal: .259 259 259 259 259 259 259 259 259 ...
Yeah, but that's only 7/27. When dealing with low numbers, I'm never surprised to see them.

After 45 years of figuring out batting averages, I know a bunch of them by heart.....

3/11: 272 272 272 272 272
4/15: 266 666 666 666 666
5/21: 238095 23809 238095 238095

And some I don't know by heart

Here'a a cute one:

6/17: .3529411764705882... 3529411764705882... 3529411764705882

(Edit: Or this one I found just now - Noah Lowry's FPs and Starts, in figuring out his FPPG:

31/7: 4.428571 428571 428571)

etc., etc....

But not that surprising or "neat" to find; I just about expect one in those cases when dealing with "low" numbers.

It's when you get up into dividing those big numbers - get into the 100's and 1000's - that they're a surprise.

Like when I did 4951/592, I didn't expect to see a neat number like .83631 756 756 756 756 756......

Change the last digit in one of those nuumbers - make it 591 or 593 or 4950 or 4952 - and then divide, and you get nothing interesting.

Make up a 4-digit number and divide it by a made up 3-digit number, and you'll usually get nothing interesting.


"Difficult....not impossible"