Quote:17| 1
17 doesn't go into 1 so you add a 0 and then a decimal point. (The result now looks like 0.___ )
17 doesn't go into 10 so you add another 0 (result 0.0___)
17 goes into 100 5 times, so you put a 5 (result 0.05____)
5 * 17 is 85, you subtract that from 100 to get 15.
You add a zero to get 150
17 goes into 150 8 times so you put an 8 (result 0.058 ___ )
17 * 8 is 136 you subtract that from 150 to get 14
You add a zero to get 140
17 goes into 140 8 times so you put another 8 (result 0.0588)
17*8 = 136 you subtrack that from 140 to get 4
add a zero to get 40
17 goes into 40 2 times so you put a 2 (result 0.05882)
There you have it. 1/17... done using long division to 5 places after the decimal.
Now Quehoniaomath.... I wait patiently to see how long it takes to do this in Galactic Math
Ok, thanks for your work and appreciated.
Do you see how tiresome, awkward and errorprone this is?
However, about the time-thing.
First, you are lousy at contracts! Don't you really know you have two sides and both sides have to agree? You didn't ask me nothing about if i want to enter in a sort of idiotic contest with you! The reality is I don't and I don't care.
I don't share your ridiculous competitiveness.
That being said.
Well, VM works with the remainders without really doing the division and finds,
(it is done by Geometrical Progression. Lots to say about this one)
These are the remainders:
10, 15, 14, 4, 6, 9, 5 , 16 / 7, 2 , 3 , 13, 11, 8 , 12 ,1
Now we multiply them with 7 and we get:
70, 105, 98,28, 42, 63, 35, 112, 49, 14, 21, 91, 77, 56, 84 , 7
Now we drop the left side digits and put down only the right side digits and we get:
1/17=0,05882352 /94117647
and 16 decimals! we do know that beforehand because of 17-1=16!
Voila!
And if you see the digits on the right side and the left side you see that
their sum is '9'
05882352
94117647
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99999999
so we could have done it with half the work!!!
AND only simple multiplications, no divisions, no guessing etc etc etc
And there are still other ways to do this in Vedic math,