An amazing zeroless pandigital approximation to 
that is correct to 18457734525360901453873570
decimal digits is given by
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which was found by R. Sabey in 2004 (Friedman 2004). An improved zeroless pandigital approximation
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which is correct to 8368428989068425943817590916445001887164 decimal digits, was found by D. Bamberger (pers. comm., Mar. 13, 2024; Friedman 2004 updated page). A pandigital approximation including 0
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which is correct to 5447761679516886279045570843725804037563002422 decimal digits, was subsequently found by Reddit user Fastfaxr (2024).
Castellanos (1988ab) gives several curious approximations to 
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which are good to 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, and 15 digits respectively.
E. Pegg Jr. (pers. comm., Mar. 2, 2002), found
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which is good to 7 digits.
J. Lafont (pers. comm., MAy 16, 2008) found
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where 
is a harmonic number, which is good to 7 digits.
N. Davidson (pers. comm., Sept. 7, 2004) found
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which is good to 6 digits.
D. Barron noticed the curious approximation
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where 
is Catalan's constant and 
is the Euler-Mascheroni
constant, which however, is only good to 3 digits.
