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zeroonetwothree on July 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Mystery of 355/113

And in base-128 it would be only denominators up to 127, which is an even more amazing 0.2% ;)

altrego99 on July 25, 2012 | [–]

Why not go till fff in base 16? And also atleast double digit in base 127? It can turn out in both cases that the probability is way higher.

Someone on July 25, 2012 | [–]

...and an overflow in your numerator.

Seriously: this kind of thinking is more numerology than number theory.

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