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Khinchin's Constant Digits


The numerical value of Khinchin's constant K is given by

 K=2.685452001...

(OEIS A002210). However, the numerical value of K is notoriously difficult to calculate to high precision. Bailey et al. (1997) computed K to 7350 digits, and the current record is 110000 digits, computed by Xavier Gourdon in 1997 with a computation requiring 22 hours and 23 minutes (Plouffe).

The Earls sequence (starting position of n copies of the digit n) for Khinchin's constant is given for n=1, 2, ... by 9, 42, 1799, 494, 5760, ... (OEIS A224836), with the n=6 term being larger than 110000.

K-constant primes occur at 1, 407, 878, 4443, 4981, 6551, 13386, 28433, ... decimal digits (OEIS A118327).

The starting positions of the first occurrence of n=0, 1, 2, ... in the decimal expansion of K (including the initial 2 and counting it as the first digit) are 8, 10, 1, 14, 5, 4, 2, 23, 3, 22, ... (OEIS A229196).

Scanning the decimal expansion of K until all n-digit numbers have occurred, the last 1-, 2-, ... digit numbers appearing are 7, 43, 782, ... (OEIS A000000), which end at digits 23, 499, 8254, ... (OEIS A000000).

It is not known if K is normal, but the following table giving the counts of digits in the first 10^n terms shows that the decimal digits are very uniformly distributed up to at least 10^5.

d\nOEIS1010010^310^410^5
0A00000031010110309991
1A00000011295100410070
2A00000019989679890
3A00000001010510399840
4A000000111969779943
5A00000021592104510116
6A0000001610799910106
7A0000000710395310020
8A00000019959709942
9A000000011108101610082

See also

Constant Digit Scanning, Constant Primes, Khinchin's Constant, Khinchin's Constant Continued Fraction

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References

Bailey, D. H.; Borwein, J. M.; and Crandall, R. E. "On the Khintchine Constant." Math. Comput. 66, 417-431, 1997.Plouffe, S. "Table of Current Records for the Computation of Constants." http://pi.lacim.uqam.ca/eng/records_en.html.Plouffe, S. "New Record on the Computation of the Digits of the Khintchine Constant." http://pi.lacim.uqam.ca/piDATA/khintchine.txt.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A002211/M1564 and A118327 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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

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