Re: Prog Challenge

On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:54:29 +0000, Nuxxie wrote:

 1/28 = 0.03571428571428...
 This is fantastic stuff!
 

Let's now do a big one.
1/37252902384619140625
First find the prime factorization:
ifactors(37252902384619140625);
[[5,11],[7,1],[47297,1],[2304403,1]]
Thus, we need to express this as:
5^11 * 762939440837
Now find the multiplicative order:
zn_order(10, 762939440837);
54494498496
The result:
The decimal expansion will begin with 11 digits followed
by a repeating porion of length 54,494,498,496.
This number would need 64 GiB of memory, but we could
write it out to a file using Maxima or bc or GMP.
I won't try but maybe someone else will.
This kind of stuff is what a computer is for.  No fucking Netflix.
No fucking Gmail.  Just this.