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Old March 27th 19, 01:42 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 5:07:28 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 27/3/19 10:36 am, wrote:
On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 11:56:27 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 1:55:57 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 24/3/19 5:02 am,
wrote:


Try representing 15 in base 7.


21

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JS

Good, then divide 15 by 7 in base 19.


The answer rounded off is
3.428571428574285714285742857142857428571428574285 71428574285714285742857142857

You might notice something about those numbers.


I notice we have drifted way off topic.

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JS


Well, that's true but I thought that while we were speaking of the oddities of math in other number bases than 10 that you might like to see and infinitely repeating series.
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