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OpenStudy (kainui):

What are both primes p > 0 for which 1/p has a purely periodic decimal expansion with a period 5 digits long?

OpenStudy (dan815):

what do you mean periodic decimal expansion

OpenStudy (kainui):

For example, this is period of 3\[\Large \frac{1}{37}=.027027027...\]

OpenStudy (dan815):

okay gotcha

OpenStudy (kainui):

I honestly don't know the answer but my first guess would be to look at 5 and 2 since they have some relationship to base 10. But obviously, they don't repeat.

OpenStudy (dan815):

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