did you know?

[fflo]

A "designer decimal" is a rational number with an "interesting" decimal expansion, like

        10000/9899 = 1.01020305081321345590....

Do you see what's interesting about it? I kinda dug the first few digits, but had to be told the real "hunh!" of it.

I'm betting on paperkingdoms to get it, of course. Anybody who can beat her to it wins her/his choice of my broken-necked giraffe candle or my root-beer-smellin' pencil!

Comments

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Hell no! Tell me!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Technically, that last "90" in your example breaks the code! Though I didn't even notice until reading that exotic definition which spelled out the first several numbers in the sequence.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

maybe it's only interesting up to a point... :}

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Ha! Rounding off clearly makes it less interesting.