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A curious result related to Kempner's series

Number Theory 2008-07-23 v1

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)S^{(r)} (rN)(r \in \mathbb{N}) denote the series of the reciprocal of the positive integers whose the decimal representation contains the digit 9 exactly rr times, the impressive obtained result is that S(r)S^{(r)} tends to 10log1010 \log{10} as rr tends to infinity!

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@article{arxiv.0807.3518,
  title  = {A curious result related to Kempner's series},
  author = {Bakir Farhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3518},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, to appear in (The) American Mathematical Monthly