This is probably the fact that some lispers had the idea of representing integers of arbitrary length then fraction with infinite precision in the machine.
This inspired a post http://smallissimo.blogspot.com/2012/01/which-fraction-has-these-digits.html Nicolas 2012/1/27 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: > this is probably the result of the constant effort of nicolas and a couple of > others :) > On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> This is so cool, and we can compute it using Pharo Smalltalk. >> >> Try inspecting or printing the result of these expressions: >> >> 1/9801 asScaledDecimal: 200 >> >> 1/998001 asScaledDecimal: 3000 >> >> And have a good look at the regularity in the digits of the fraction. >> >> Amazing ! >> >> Sven >> > >
