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Hey HallsofIvy thanks for your help! that makes more sense to me i am in a math 113 class and this was an extra credit question but we talked about the pigeon hole principle in class so i get it now thanks again. and Robert thank you too, if i were more advanced in math I'm sure i would...

Hey Robert thanks for replying to my qustion but i am really bad at math and i don't understand what your answer is saying and i still do not understand why the repeating blocks of numbers in decimals will always be less then the denominator if divided by one.

I have to prove that if n is any natural number then the decimal expansion of 1/n either terminates or repeats in blocks of numbers at most n-1 digits long. for example, 1/11 = 0.0909090909... the repeating block of numbers is 09 which is 2 digits long and 2 is less than 11. 1/7...