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Soldner's Constant Digits


Soldner's constant digits are the decimal digits of Soldner's constant mu, whose value is

 mu=1.45136923488...

(OEIS A070769; Derbyshire 2004, p. 114). Ramanujan reported the approximation mu approx 1.45136380 (Berndt and Evans 1991, p. 38). The first 10^7 decimal digits were computed by E. Weisstein on Oct. 7, 2013.

mu-constant primes occur for 4, 144, 227, 444, 19474, ... (OEIS A122422) decimal digits.

The Earls sequence (starting position of n copies of the digit n, counting only fractional digits) for mu is given for n=1, 2, ... by 3, 42, 178, 10013, 31567, 600035, 1253449, ... (OEIS A229071).

The starting positions of the first occurrence of n=0, 1, 2, ... in the decimal expansion of mu (including the initial 1 and counting it as the first digit) are 17, 1, 8, 5, 2, 3, 6, 34, 11, ... (OEIS A229201).

Scanning the decimal expansion of mu, including the initial 1, until all n-digit strings have occurred, including those with leading zeros, the last 1-, 2-, ... digit strings appearing are 7, 46, 102, 5858, 48441, ..., which end at digits 34, 512, 7454, 92508, 1414058, ....

The digit sequences 0123456789 and 9876543210 do not occur in the first 10^7 digits (E. Weisstein, Oct. 7, 2013).

It is not known if mu is normal, but the following table giving the counts of digits in the first 10^n fractional decimal digits shows that the decimal digits are very uniformly distributed up to at least 10^7.

d\nOEIS1010010^310^410^510^610^7
009116105310098100104999785
11710097098931002381000370
21910697910113100057999594
3213109101210120999991001006
42109610191011899822999546
51151039949912999181001007
6188910361006099971999430
7069798810029100141997185
811510198898381000891001593
918839619819996611000484

See also

Soldner's Constant, Soldner's Constant Continued Fraction

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References

Berndt, B. C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part IV. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 123-124, 1994.Berndt, B. C. and Evans, R. J. "Some Elegant Approximations and Asymptotic Formulas of Ramanujan." J. Comput. Appl. Math. 37, 35-41, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0427(91)90104-R.Derbyshire, J. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. New York: Penguin, 2004.Hardy, G. H. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work, 3rd ed. New York: Chelsea, pp. 23 and 45, 1999.Le Lionnais, F. Les nombres remarquables. Paris, France: Hermann, p. 39, 1983.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A070769, A122422, A229071, A229201 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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

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