Wolfram Alpha interprets 1/0x9999998 or 1/0xffffffe correctly as hex input, but still shows the output as decimal approximation, while a hexadecimal approximation would be more useful here. I would be really curious what this thing looks like in other numeric bases.
Unfortunately, the "Other base conversions" section only shows up to 7 or so digits after the point and doesn't allow expanding.
EDIT: found it! I didn't know bc in linux was this awesome!
echo "obase=16;ibase=16;scale=1000;1/FFFE" | bc
.0001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000 (....)
Wolfram Alpha interprets 1/0x9999998 or 1/0xffffffe correctly as hex input, but still shows the output as decimal approximation, while a hexadecimal approximation would be more useful here. I would be really curious what this thing looks like in other numeric bases.
Unfortunately, the "Other base conversions" section only shows up to 7 or so digits after the point and doesn't allow expanding.
EDIT: found it! I didn't know bc in linux was this awesome! echo "obase=16;ibase=16;scale=1000;1/FFFE" | bc .0001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000 (....)