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Subject: Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76759

Amusing.

It works in hexadecimal too:
    numerator = 1
    denominator = 0xffe001
    shift = int(16 ** 30)
    print(hex(int(numerator * shift / denominator)))