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eyes you in binary
The sequence in base 2 is only 1/1.
Wonder how close base-16 gets.
FEDCBA987654321 / 123456789ABCDEF
Off by '1.82959E–16' !
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.