Hi, I am trying to build an algorithm or methodology which will let me tell if a decimal has a repeating sequence of digits and if it does have that attribute, what is the sequence of digits. For example, 1/3.0 = 0.333333333..By eyeballing we know it has a repeating sequence and we know that the sequence is .3333.....A little more complex is 1/7.0 = 0.142857142857 but still is equivalent. A harder example is 45/56.0 = 0.8035714285714286. Here we have a repeating sequence but it comes after the first three digits.
What I am looking for are ideas and suggestions looking for patterns. I do know I should use a relatively large precision as repeating values may constitute a rather long sequence. I did see, on Google, a suggestion to use a precision of 1000. Thank you for any and all ideas and suggestions. Robert Berman _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
