Re: [Pharo-project] This is so cool, and we can compute it !

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 Nicolas 2012/1/27 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:

this is probably the result of the constant effort of nicolas and a couple of others :) On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

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This is so cool, and we can compute it using Pharo Smalltalk.

Try inspecting or printing the result of these expressions:

 1/9801 asScaledDecimal: 200

 1/998001 asScaledDecimal: 3000

And have a good look at the regularity in the digits of the fraction.

Amazing !

Sven