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I wanted to reach out to the hive mind to see if there is any field regarding odd relationships with or properties of numbers. I was hoping for something more scientific than numerology or perhaps numerology is more scientific than I fear?
What spurred this is some random thoughts about partial fractions of 11ths (i.e. not 11/11 or 0/11).
I know it is weird the things you think about as you are falling asleep! So I became riveted that 11ths are infinitely repeating and their digits add up to 9:
1/11 = .09090909 etc.
2/11 = .18181818
3/11 = .27272727
4/11 = .36363636
5/11 = .45454545
6/11 = .54545454
7/11 = .63636363
8/11 = .72727272
9/11 = .81818181
10/11 = .90909090
It also brought me back to my childhood arithmetic where we learned tricks like if something is divisible by 3 or 9 , then its digits add up to a number divisible by 3 or 9 respectively:
541311 is divisible by 3 because 5+4+1+3+1+1 = 15, which is divisible by 3
276534 is divisible by 9 because 2+7+6+5+3+4 = 27 which is divisible by 9
Is there a field of study surrounding this? I know I am not the only GWJer obsessed with, for lack of a better description - "stupid number tricks" ;P
The field of study would be "Number Theory." A quick Google search brought up this PDF which may interest you.
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I think those are less about number theory and more about properties that emerge in a base-10 decimal representation.
As an example, 1/10 is 0.1 in decimal, but in binary, it's an infinitely repeating number: 0.00011001100110011....
Link to the math if you want to see it.
Number theory is still probably of interest to you though.
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