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Copeland-Erdős Constant Digits


The Copeland-Erdős constant digits are the decimal digits following the decimal point in the decimal expansion of the Copeland-Erdős constant,

 C=0.23571113...

(OEIS A033308). Positions below are counted from 1 at the first decimal digit after the decimal point.

The Earls sequence for C 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 5, 113, 1181, 21670, 263423, 7815547, 35619942, ... (OEIS A224897), corresponding to n=1, 2, ....

A scan reported no occurrences of the strings 0123456789 and 9876543210 in the first 10^9 decimal digits of C (E. Weisstein, Jul. 24, 2013).

The reported lengths of C-constant primes and probable primes, formed from initial decimal digits of C, begin 1, 2, 4, 11, 353, 355, 499, 1171, 1543, 5719, 11048, 68433, 97855, 292447, ... (OEIS A227530). A search reported no further examples with fewer than 500000 decimal digits (Rodenkirch, Jun. 18, 2016).

The starting positions of the first occurrences of the decimal representations of n=0, 1, 2, ... in the decimal expansion of C are 48, 5, 1, 2, 21, 3, 31, 4, 41, 12, ... (OEIS A229190).

Scanning the decimal expansion of C until all length-n digit strings have occurred, allowing leading zeros and overlapping occurrences, the reported last strings for n=1, 2, ... are 0, 84, 504, 8580, 07010, 088880, ..., which end at positions 48, 934, 24437, 366399, 4910479, 49672582, ....

The Copeland-Erdős constant is a normal number in base 10 (Copeland and Erdős 1946). Nevertheless, its digit counts in finite prefixes can be far from uniform. The following table gives reported counts of each digit d in the first 10^n decimal digits, for n=1, 2, ..., 9.

d\10^nOEIS1010010^310^410^510^610^710^810^9
00446575679975249790407812935983121745
1433266230120468187375176660216794379161034016
21463731801684314876083901691491679602
3216134125912015115987113451311201736110467722
40460685728676925796194820202683946253
51558674734676886794905816169183863547
60460667724776745794002815423283381734
7216133122811889115336112905311107597109702515
80357654710776273791955814117383207903
9011123122611827114910112628611090893109594963

See also

Constant Digit Scanning, Constant Primes, Copeland-Erdős Constant, Copeland-Erdős Constant Continued Fraction, Earls Sequence

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References

Copeland, A. H. and Erdős, P. "Note on Normal Numbers." Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52, 857-860, 1946.Rodenkirch, M. "Copeland-Erdos Constant Primes." May 5, 2016. https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/15239/page2#post585416.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A033308, A224897, A227530, and A229190 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Copeland-Erdős Constant Digits." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Copeland-ErdosConstantDigits.html

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