Sum of inverse cubes over terminating-decimal reciprocals
Question
Let be the set of positive integers for which the decimal expansion of ends after finitely many digits (for instance because , while because repeats forever). Compute
Short answer
. The reciprocal terminates exactly when . The sum therefore factors into two geometric series: .
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