Representing a strange number as a fraction

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Can this decimal with special patterns be expressed as a fraction? Is it a rational number?

$$0.101001000100001000001...$$

Where the number of zeros after every 1 is increased by 1.

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It is an irrational number, since it does not have a periodic decimal expansion. Hence it cannot be expressed as a fraction of two integers.