how many decimal places in the repeating pattern for 1/31 ?

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Guest May 12, 2015

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1/31 has a repeating string of period length 15....

BTW.....the longest possible period in a fraction of 1/n where n is prime = n - 1

CPhill May 12, 2015

CPhill · Answer 1 · 2015-05-12T07:57:02

1/31 has a repeating string of period length 15....

BTW.....the longest possible period in a fraction of 1/n where n is prime = n - 1

Melody · Answer 2 · 2015-05-13T07:40:43

You have told me that before Chris but I keep forgetting!