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Golomb-Dickman Constant Digits


The Golomb-Dickman constant digits are the decimal digits of the Golomb-Dickman constant, whose decimal expansion begins

 lambda=0.6243299885...

(OEIS A084945). Mitchell (1968) computed lambda to 53 decimal places. lambda has been computed to 15000 decimal digits by E. Weisstein (Jul. 25, 2013). Positions below count from 1 at the first decimal digit after the decimal point.

The Earls sequence records the starting position of the first occurrence of the string formed by concatenation of n copies of the decimal representation of the positive integer n. For lambda and n=1, 2, ..., it begins 28, 256, 1967, 387, ... (OEIS A225242).

lambda-constant primes occur for 6, 27, 57, 60, 1659, 2508, ... (OEIS A174974) decimal digits.

The starting positions of the first occurrence of n=0, 1, 2, ... in the decimal expansion of lambda (not including the initial 0 to the left of the decimal point) are 15, 28, 2, 4, 3, 10, 1, 17, 8, 6, ... (OEIS A229195).

Scanning the decimal expansion of lambda until all decimal strings of length n have occurred, including those with leading zeros, the last strings for n=1, 2, ... are 1, 33, 821, ..., which end at positions 28, 587, 6322, ....

The digit sequences 0123456789 and 9876543210 do not occur in the first 15000 digits (E. Weisstein, Jul. 25, 2013).

It is not known if lambda is normal in base 10. The following table gives reported counts of each decimal digit d in the first 10^n decimal digits after the decimal point.

d\10^nOEIS1010010^310^4
00989987
107108999
221293996
311094989
4191001021
511298983
61101041042
70596995
8214109993
9212109995

The first few lambda-constant primes are 624329, 624329988543550870992936383, ... (OEIS A174975), which have integer lengths 6, 27, 57, 60, 1659, 2508, ... (OEIS A174974). E. W. Weisstein reported a completed search for primes through 15000 decimal digits (Jul. 25, 2013). The following table summarizes the largest values reported in that search.

decimal digitsdiscoverer
1659D. J. Broadhurst (Apr. 2, 2010)
2508E. W. Weisstein (Apr. 3, 2010)

See also

Constant Digit Scanning, Constant Primes, Golomb-Dickman Constant, Golomb-Dickman Constant Continued Fraction

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References

Mitchell, W. C. "An Evaluation of Golomb's Constant." Math. Comput. 22, 411-415, 1968.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A084945, A174974, A174975, A225242, and A229195 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Golomb-Dickman Constant Digits." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Golomb-DickmanConstantDigits.html

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