Dear Sir, I have read the section Repeating Decimals in your data base. It mention that 1/17 has at most only 16 repeating digits. But, why "pi" has infinity number of digits (and not repeating )

Mike
From Hong Kong 5th July 97

When a common fraction like 3/8 or 1/17 is written in decimal form it has a decimal part that is either finite or repeating. A fraction with decimal part that is neither finite nor repeating cannot be written in the form a/b. Pi is such a number.

Cheers,
Penny