A099299 Number of times the digit 8 appears in the first 10^n digits of Pi.

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

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..12.

Kanada Laboratory, Statistical Distribution Information.

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}]

Crossrefs

Cf. A099291, A099292, A099293, A099294, A099295, A099296, A099297, A099298, A099300.

Sequence in context: A211403 A008547 A109020 * A344366 A304504 A344279

Adjacent sequences: A099296 A099297 A099298 * A099300 A099301 A099302

Keyword

nonn,base

Author

Robert G. Wilson v, Oct 11 2004

Status

approved