Reciprocals and repeating digits

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So when you take the reciprocals of integers, some have nice non repeating decimal forms like 0.5 and 0.2, but of course a lot of them give infinite repeating strings.

1/7 gives 0.142857 repeating, so there are 6 digits repeating.
1/12 give 0.083333... but there is only 1 digits that's repeating, which is 3.

Which integer reciprocal gives the most digits repeating? Or is there no answer?
 
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