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Khinchin's Constant Digits


Khinchin's constant digits are the decimal digits in the decimal expansion of Khinchin's constant K,

 K=2.685452001...

(OEIS A002210). However, the numerical value of K is notoriously difficult to calculate to high precision. The following table summarizes some record computations. The current record is 2000000 decimal digits (K Ghazi 2026).

yeardecimal digitscomputation time (days)computed by (reference)
19977350--Bailey et al. (1997)
19971100000.93Xavier Gourdon (Plouffe 1998)
2016100000011.99Carles Simó (2016)
202620000000.37Reza K Ghazi (2026)

The Earls sequence (starting position of n copies of the decimal digit n) for Khinchin's constant, counting the first decimal digit after the decimal point as position 1, is given for n=1, 2, ... by 9, 42, 1799, 494, 5760, ... (OEIS A224836).

Known (probable) K-constant primes occur at 1, 407, 878, 4443, 4981, 6551, 13386, 28433, ... decimal digits (OEIS A118327). No further probable primes were found through decimal prefix length 250000 (E. W. Weisstein, Oct. 17, 2026).

The starting positions of the first occurrence of n=0, 1, 2, ... in the decimal expansion of K (including the initial 2 and counting it as the first decimal digit) are 8, 10, 1, 14, 5, 4, 2, 23, 3, 22, ... (OEIS A229196).

Scanning the decimal expansion of K until all n-digit numbers have occurred without leading zeros, the last 1-, 2-, ... digit numbers appearing are 7, 43, 782, ..., which end at decimal digits 23, 499, 8254, ....

It is not known if K is normal, but the following table giving the counts of decimal digits in the first 10^n positions after the decimal point shows that the decimal digits are very uniformly distributed up to at least 10^5.

d\nOEIS1010010^310^410^5
031010110309991
111295100410070
219989679890
301010510399840
4111969779943
521592104510116
61610799910106
70710395310020
819959709942
9011108101610082

See also

Constant Digit Scanning, Constant Primes, Khinchin's Constant, Khinchin's Constant Continued Fraction

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References

Bailey, D. H.; Borwein, J. M.; and Crandall, R. E. "On the Khintchine Constant." Math. Comput. 66, 417-431, 1997.K Ghazi, R. "khinchin-fast: Khinchin's Constant to 2,000,000 Certified Decimal Digits." Zenodo, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22134905.Plouffe, S. "Table of Current Records for the Computation of Constants." https://www.plouffe.fr/simon/articles/TableofRecords.pdf.Plouffe, S. "New Record on the Computation of the Digits of the Khintchine Constant." 1998. https://www.plouffe.fr/simon/constants/khintchine.txt.Simó, C. "Computation of 10^6 Digits of Khintchine's Constant." 2016. https://www.maia.ub.es/dsg/khinchin/.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A002210, A002211/M0118, A118327, A224836, and A229196 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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

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