There is a little more going on here than basic arithmetic. See the top comment ...

		dwaltrip on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128... There is a little more going on here than basic arithmetic. See the top comment for further evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144804. But yes, non-math-geeks will probably find this uninteresting. Apparently HN has a lot of math geeks ;)