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Catalan's Constant Digits


The decimal digits of Catalan's constant K begin

 K=0.915965594177...

(OEIS A006752). Positions below are counted from 1 at the first decimal digit after the decimal point.

Based on methods developed in collaboration with M. Leclert, Catalan (1865) computed K to 9 decimal places. In 1867, M. Bresse subsequently computed K to 24 decimal places using a technique from Kummer. Glaisher evaluated K to 20 (Glaisher 1877, p. 190) and subsequently 32 decimal digits (Glaisher 1913). Yee reports an unverified computation of K to 5×10^(10) decimal digits by A. Roberts completed on Dec. 12, 2010.

The Earls sequence for Catalan's constant records the starting position of the first occurrence of the string formed by the concatenation of n copies of the decimal representation of the positive integer n. Its reported initial terms are 2, 107, 1225, 596, 32187, 185043, 20444527, 92589355, 3487283621, ... (OEIS A224819), corresponding to n=1, 2, ....

The reported lengths of K-constant primes, formed by the concatenation of initial decimal digits of K, begin 52, 276, 25477, ... (OEIS A118328).

For each decimal digit d=0, 1, ..., 9 and positive integer n, let C_d(n) count the occurrences of d in the first 10^n decimal digits of K. The following table gives reported values for n=1, 2, ..., 9. It is not known if K is normal in base 10.

d\10^nOEIS1010010^310^410^510^610^710^810^9
0A2246150698976982899620999784999868699996067
1A224616218941039983299697100029310003813100006305
2A2246960109398010078100168100178910005122100000806
3A2247060710410149859995809996729995676100001483
4A2247171111079611005110007410001659995377100001871
5A224774310891003100621000539999659999309100000777
6A2247751127898599861002019987121000067499998816
7A224816011124103210028100083100051010003863100000576
8A224817031021058101921003529992989997437100000863
9A224818312111952100841001729998121000004399992436

A scan reported no occurrence of the string 0123456789 in the first 5×10^9 decimal digits of K, and exactly one occurrence of the string 9876543210, starting at position 2748123761 (E. Weisstein, Aug. 7, 2013).


See also

Catalan's Constant, Catalan's Constant Continued Fraction, Constant Digit Scanning, Constant Primes, Earls Sequence

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References

Glaisher, J. W. L. "Further Note on Certain Numerical Continued Products." Messenger Math. 6, 189-192, 1877.Glaisher, J. W. L. "Numerical Values of the Series 1-1/3^n+1/5^n-1/7^n+1/9^n-&c for n=2, 4, 6." Messenger Math. 42, 35-58, 1913.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A006752, A118328, A224615, A224616, A224696, A224706, A224717, A224774, A224775, A224816, A224817, A224818, and A224819 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."Yee, A. J. "Catalan's Constant." https://www.numberworld.org/digits/Catalan/.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Catalan's Constant Digits." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CatalansConstantDigits.html

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