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A036275 The periodic part of the decimal expansion of 1/n. Any initial 0's are to be placed at end of cycle. 20
0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 6, 142857, 0, 1, 0, 90, 3, 769230, 714285, 6, 0, 5882352941176470, 5, 526315789473684210, 0, 476190, 45, 4347826086956521739130, 6, 0, 384615, 370, 571428, 3448275862068965517241379310, 3, 322580645161290, 0, 30, 2941176470588235, 285714, 7 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
a(n) = 0 iff n = 2^i*5^j (A003592). - Jon Perry, Nov 19 2014
a(n) = n iff n = 3 or 6 (see De Koninck & Mercier reference). - Bernard Schott, Dec 02 2020
REFERENCES
Jean-Marie De Koninck & Armel Mercier, 1001 Problèmes en Théorie Classique des Nombres, Problème 347 pp. 50 and 205, Ellipses, Paris, 2004.
LINKS
Philippe Guglielmetti, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1001 (first 500 terms from T. D. Noe)
EXAMPLE
1/28 = .03571428571428571428571428571428571428571... and digit-cycle is 571428, so a(28)=571428.
MAPLE
isCycl := proc(n) local ifa, i ; if n <= 2 then RETURN(false) ; fi ; ifa := ifactors(n)[2] ; for i from 1 to nops(ifa) do if op(1, op(i, ifa)) <> 2 and op(1, op(i, ifa)) <> 5 then RETURN(true) ; fi ; od ; RETURN(false) ; end: A036275 := proc(n) local ifa, sh, lpow, mpow, r ; if not isCycl(n) then RETURN(0) ; else lpow:=1 ; while true do for mpow from lpow-1 to 0 by -1 do if (10^lpow-10^mpow) mod n =0 then r := (10^lpow-10^mpow)/n ; r := r mod (10^(lpow-mpow)-1) ; while r*10 < 10^(lpow-mpow) do r := 10*r ; od ; RETURN(r) ; fi ; od ; lpow := lpow+1 ; od ; fi ; end: for n from 1 to 60 do printf("%d %d ", n, A036275(n)) ; od ; # R. J. Mathar, Oct 19 2006
MATHEMATICA
fc[n_]:=Block[{q=RealDigits[1/n][[1, -1]]}, If[IntegerQ[q], 0, While[First[q]==0, q=RotateLeft[q]]; FromDigits[q]]];
Table[fc[n], {n, 36}] (* Ray Chandler, Nov 19 2014, corrected Jun 27 2017 *)
Table[FromDigits[FindTransientRepeat[RealDigits[1/n, 10, 120][[1]], 3] [[2]]], {n, 40}] (* Requires Mathematica version 10 or later *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 12 2019 *)
CROSSREFS
See also A060282, A060283, A060251.
A051628 is length of preamble.
Sequence in context: A110620 A270392 A060284 * A131436 A046765 A046777
KEYWORD
base,nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by N. J. A. Sloane
Corrected a(92), a(208), a(248), a(328), a(352) and a(488) which missed a trailing zero (see the table). - Philippe Guglielmetti, Jun 20 2017
STATUS
approved

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