Ian Dennis Miller » math http://iandennismiller.com/blog Essays and Whatnot Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The remarkable number 1/89 http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2009/06/the-remarkable-number-189/ http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2009/06/the-remarkable-number-189/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:13:30 +0000 idm http://iandennismiller.com/blog/?p=4 Wow – this is a surprising finding:

The decimal expansion of 1/89 is just the Fibonacci series, added together in an appropriate fashion.

Specifically, think of the Fibonacci series as being a sequence of decimal fractions, arranged so the right most digit of the nth Fibonacci number is in the n+1th decimal place.

via The remarkable number 1/89.

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