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Dividing 1 by 998,001 Gives a Very Strange Result

September 23, 2016 | Johannes Van Zijl

Photo credit: Screen capture from video by Numberphile

Something really strange happens when you divide 1 by 998,001. Numberphile goes out to explain in the video below just how and why the result seems so bizarre.

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