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earnstyle [38]
3 years ago
9

When dividing 1 by a number N to produce a decimal, what is the maximum size of the repeating portion?

Mathematics
1 answer:
AnnZ [28]3 years ago
6 0

Great question.  The answer is N-1.

Think about doing long division.  We append a 0, get another digit in the quotient, multiply and subtract to get a remainder.  We can assume that remainder is not zero because then we wouldn't have a repeating decimal.   At each step the remainder has to be less than N, because we're dividing by N.

So there are N-1 possibilities for the remainder.  On the off chance we generate N-1 digits and N-1 remainders and none repeat, we know the next one will repeat, because we've already generated all the possible remainders.  

So the largest size of the repeating portion is N-1.   This maximum happens first for 1/7.

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