On 27 Jan 2012, at 10:34, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > 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
Cool! I did of course not find this myself, I read it here http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/16393143676/fun-with-math-dividing-one-by-998001-yields-a who read it here http://www.geekosystem.com/one-divided-by-998001/ who read it here http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/01/08/math-notes-76/ But I really don't know if that last person invented it.
