• moonlight
      21•5 days ago

      This sequence approximates an integer to arbitrary precision, not 8 specifically though, and never perfectly.

      I tried it out using other bases, and the rule seems to be that doing this in base n results in n-2 with remainder n-1. So it doesn’t ever actually converge, but the remainder becomes small very fast.

        • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
          11•5 days ago

          The sequence in base 2 is only 1/1.

          Wonder how close base-16 gets.

          FEDCBA987654321 / 123456789ABCDEF

        • moonlight
          4•5 days ago

          Hmmmm…

          Edit: you can kinda think of it being 0, plus the 1/1 that would have ended up as a remainder in larger bases. In base 2, it just ends up being a full 1.