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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: Univ Illinois P-ADIC corner; send us your questions
Date: 5 Sep 1997 18:53:42 GMT
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In article <seaborg2-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) writes:
>
>  In article <34052D6C.4ABC@WorldNet.att.net> "Jeffery J. Leader"
>    <JeffLeader@WorldNet.att.net>
>  What is the 7-adic ....666666.  divided by the 10-adic  
>...141312109876543210. (ascending digit order) ?
> 	If anybody hadn't guessed...I suppose it is the 17-adic of ....837. made up >of all the quotients.  None of the math people, Paul or Elliot were in their 
>office today.
> e-mail: weinberg@math.uiuc.edu 
> e-mail: weichsel@math.uiuc.edu 
          
  Tim, why use 17-adics?