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 denote the series of the reciprocal of the positive integers whose the decimal representation contains the digit 9 exactly times, the impressive obtained result is that tends to as tends to infinity!
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.3518,
title = {A curious result related to Kempner's series},
author = {Bakir Farhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3518},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
5 pages, to appear in (The) American Mathematical Monthly