Reciprocal of 103
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Theorem
The decimal expansion of the reciprocal of $103$ is as follows:
- $\dfrac 1 {103} = 0 \cdotp \dot 00970 \, 87378 \, 64077 \, 66990 \, 29126 \, 21359 \, 223 \dot 3$
This sequence is A021107 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane (Ed.), 2008).
Proof
Performing the calculation using long division:
0.0097087378640776699029126213592233009... -------------------------------------------- 103)1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000... 927 618 927 103 309 --- --- --- --- --- 730 420 300 370 1000 721 412 206 309 927 --- --- --- --- ---- 900 800 940 610 .... 824 721 927 515 --- --- --- --- 760 790 130 950 721 721 103 927 --- --- --- --- 390 690 270 230 309 618 206 206 --- --- --- --- 810 720 640 240 721 618 618 206 --- --- --- --- 890 1020 220 340 824 927 206 309 --- ---- --- --- 660 930 140 310 618 927 103 309
$\blacksquare$