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A121242
Number of 2's in first n primes.
1
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24
OFFSET
1,9
COMMENTS
In the first 10^m (m=3,4,5) primes there are 339, 4070, 55213 2's, among all 3803, 48982, 610484 digits, which gives the frequencies {0.08914, 0.08309, 0.09044}.
LINKS
MAPLE
ListTools:-PartialSums([seq(numboccur(2, convert(ithprime(i), base, 10)), i=1..100)]); # Robert Israel, Jun 13 2018
MATHEMATICA
Accumulate[DigitCount[Prime[Range[90]], 10, 2]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 09 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A068670 Number of digits in the first n primes.
Partial sums of A085976.
Sequence in context: A065683 A065682 A065681 * A185436 A025794 A354760
KEYWORD
base,nonn
AUTHOR
Zak Seidov, Aug 22 2006
STATUS
approved