There’s something strange going on with the number 998,001, and a lot of people are losing their mind over it. If you divide 1 by 998,001, the resulting decimal number will give you almost every three digit number in this way 0.000001002003004005006007009010… and so on. However, the number 998 gets skipped and 999 comes exactly after 997.
Here, Numberphile goes out to explain just why the result seems so bizarre and how the number 998 gets shafted in the video – 998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals.
In a similar manner, dividing 1 by 9801 will give every two digit number from 01 to 99 in order. Well, I suggest you don’t use calculator, because the results are likely to get truncated.
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