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Multiply 92 by 8, then multiply that product by 8, and so on. List the products, indenting them successively as shown and continuing indefinitely: 92 736 5888 47104 376832 3014656 24117248 192937984 9999999... The sum converges to a string of 9s. From Archimedes’ Lab’s Zoo of Numbers.

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