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A072136 Position of the first zero in the fractional part of the base n expansion of Pi. +0
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1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 10, 32, 5, 5, 5, 19, 16, 13, 19, 7, 25, 25, 15, 9, 17, 29, 23, 60, 35, 3, 6, 4, 91, 20, 30, 51, 85, 70, 103, 33, 44, 28, 3, 52, 17, 60, 62, 9, 187, 4, 39, 39, 10, 13, 8, 37, 14, 56, 18, 20, 142, 4, 38, 57, 131, 17, 14, 33, 101, 40, 6, 42, 15, 68, 191, 149, 24 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

2,7

COMMENT

The first digit after the decimal point is indexed 1.

Given that in a normal number there is a 1/n possibility that each basimal place is a zero and that Pi is held to be normal in all integer bases, the statistically expected value of a(n) is n.

REFERENCES

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 17-28.

LINKS

S. R. Finch, The Miraculous Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm

Stan Wagon, Is Pi Normal?

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to the 'Normal Number' section of The World of Mathematics

EXAMPLE

Pi in base 9 is 3.12418812407442... Since the first zero is in the tenth nonary place, a(9)=10.

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := (rd = RealDigits[Pi, n, 500]; Flatten[ Position[ rd[[1]], 0, 1, 1] - rd[[2]]] [[1]]); Table[ f[n], {n, 2, 75}]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000796, A004601, A062964.

Sequence in context: A024426 A034016 A001403 this_sequence A080406 A036682 A104270

Adjacent sequences: A072133 A072134 A072135 this_sequence A072137 A072138 A072139

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Carl R.White (cyrek(AT)cyreksoft.yorks.com), Jun 26 2002

EXTENSIONS

Edited by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jun 27 2002

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