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A099299
Number of times the digit 8 appears in the first 10^n digits of Pi.
12
0, 12, 101, 948, 9978, 99985, 999814, 10002180, 100001839, 999991772, 10000157175, 100000791469
OFFSET
1,2
REFERENCES
Alfred S. Posamentier & Ingmar Lehmann, A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY 2004, page 129.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Digits
MATHEMATICA
$MaxPrecision = 1100000; dp = Drop[ RealDigits[Pi, 10, 1000010] [[1]], 1]; Table[ Count[ Take[dp, 10^n], 8], {n, 6}]
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Robert G. Wilson v, Oct 11 2004
STATUS
approved