Jay Fox wrote:
> On the other hand, 1234.56789 has a period of 116,032,317, and 123.4567
89 has a
> period of 1,078,493,612. Finally, a value of s of 12.3456789 has a peri
od in
> excess of a hundred billion (i.e., my program is still running, having 
already
> produced over 110 billion iterates).
> 
	Note that due to rounding error, you might never get the first 
value back. I.e it is quite possible for the algorithm to go: 1, 2, 
3, 2, 3, 2, 3...

		Jerome
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