Summation of Series Defined by Counting Blocks of Digits
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We discuss the summation of certain series defined by counting blocks of digits in the -ary expansion of an integer. For example, if denotes the sum of the base-2 digits of , we show that . We recover this previous result of Sondow in math.NT/0508042 and provide several generalizations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0512399,
title = {Summation of Series Defined by Counting Blocks of Digits},
author = {Jean-Paul Allouche and Jeffrey Shallit and Jonathan Sondow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0512399},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, Introduction expanded, references added, accepted by J. Number Theory