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The Feynman point is the sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of pi,

pi=3.14159...134999999_()_(six 9s)837...

(Wells 1986, p. 51). The positions of the first occurrences of strings of 1, 2, ... consecutive 9s are 5, 44, 762, 762, 762, 762, 1722776, 36356642, 564665206, ... (OEIS A048940).

See also

Earls Sequence, Pi Digits

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References

Anderson, D. "The Pi-Search Page." https://www.angio.net/pi/piquery.Numberphile. "Sounds of Pi." Mar. 12, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPn4tgmU8ek.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A048940 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, p. 51, 1986.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Feynman Point." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FeynmanPoint.html

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