Hi all

A friend of mine just pasted a link to this on Facebook...

http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/16393143......yields-a

I'm just thinking of ways that this could be built into a routine.

Respect to all
Steve

1/9801 is very interesting. And 9801 is our old friend 1089 reversed. It would be simple enough to use a standard 1089 trick and then proceeed to 1/9801.

Mike

1/1089 is interesting too. It reveals a series of multiples of 9. I.e.,

9.18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 (then 91000, then the pattern repeats).

That could be built into a mathematical genius effect - you force 1089 then reveal the reciprocal to 16 decimal places (or a few more).

Mike

Hi Mike

I like your thinking on this

Respect to all
Steve

James Grime has a good post on WHY this works:
http://singingbanana.tumblr.com/post/165......rom-zero

It provides some good ideas that might spark other methods for getting to those special numbers.

Thanks for that Scott I like it when I can understand why something is the way it is!

Respect to all
Steve

More on the same problem:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/......99980001