Why do 1/7, 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7, and 6/7 each share the same combination of digits in ...?

Well, because they must. The sevenths have an interesting property: their decimal representation has a repeating block of six digits. Why is that interesting? Because six is one less than seven…

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