A Curious Result Related to Kempner's Series

DOI10.1080/00029890.2008.11920611zbMATH Open1187.11005arXiv0807.3518OpenAlexW2963387285WikidataQ58255314 ScholiaQ58255314MaRDI QIDQ3563792FDOQ3563792

Bakir Farhi

Publication date: 1 June 2010

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known since A. J. Kempner's work that the series of the reciprocals of the positive integers whose the decimal representation does not contain any digit 9, is convergent. This result was extended by F. Irwin and others to deal with the series of the reciprocals of the positive integers whose the decimal representation contains only a limited quantity of each digit of a given nonempty set of digits. Actually, such series are known to be all convergent. Here, letting $S^{(r)}$ $(rinmathbbN)$ denote the series of the reciprocal of the positive integers whose the decimal representation contains the digit 9 exactly $r$ times, the impressive obtained result is that $S^{(r)}$ tends to $10log10$ as $r$ tends to infinity!

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3518

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05)

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