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Primes and Recurring Decimals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. E. Green*
Affiliation:
City of London School

Extract

The method of writing , … as recurring decimal fractions by cyclic permutation of the six figures 142857 is well known, but it is perhaps not so well known that this is but a tiny piece of a general pattern of behaviour of all fractions with denominators which are prime to the radix.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1963

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Footnotes

*

A talk given at the Annual General Meeting of the Mathematical Association at King’s College London, April 1962.

References

* A talk given at the Annual General Meeting of the Mathematical Association at King’s College London, April 1962.