Find the $4000$th digit following the decimal point in the expansion of $\frac{1}{17}$.
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First, let's note that 1/17 is a repeating decimal.
We have that \(1/17 = 0.\overline{0588235294117647}\)
There are 16 repeating digits.
Thus, we do 4000/16. We get
\(4000/16=250\)
Since it's divisible, it means the last digit of the repeating part is our answer, which is 7.
So 7 is our answer.
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