[seqfan] Re: Fractions, digits, decimal expansion

[Neil Sloane]

Bob said: "9 does not appear".

Do you have a proof, or this just a conjecture? [I seem to be asking that a
lot recently!
But in mathematics the distinction is vital.]

Maybe I did not understand the question, but suppose after a while we reach
the number 11111145478227154832
(since the terms must be distinct, the sequence either dies (unlikely here)
or the terms
get bigger and bigger, so after a zillion steps we will see large numbers).

Then the next term could be 9, because 11111145478227154832/9
= 1234571719803017203.5555555555...
and all the digits on the left also appear on the right.

My guess is that every number will appear.



Best regards
Neil

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Bob Selcoe <rselcoe at entouchonline.net>
wrote:

> Hi Eric an Seqfans,
>
> 9 does not appear.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob Selcoe
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Eric Angelini" <Eric.Angelini at kntv.be>
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 8:59 AM
> To: "Sequence Fanatics" <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Cc: <alexandre.wajnberg at skynet.be>
> Subject: [seqfan] Fractions, digits, decimal expansion
>
>
> Hello SeqFans,
>> Here is an echo to the seq computed by Hans Havermann last July:
>> https://oeis.org/A257664
>>
>> a(1)=1; a(n+1) is the smallest positive integer not yet used
>> such that the set of the different digits present in the
>> fraction F=a(n)/a(n+1) is visible in the decimal expansion of F:
>>
>> S = 1,6,13,10,14,17,7,8,...
>>
>> Example:
>> 1/6 = 0,1666... (we see 1 and 6)
>> 6/13 = 0,461538461538... (we see 6, 1 and 3)
>> 13/10 = 1,30 (yes, we admit this zero)
>> 10/14 = 0,7142857142... (we see 1, 0 and 4)
>> 14/17 = 0,8235294117... (we see 1, 4 and 7)
>> 17/7 = 2,4285714285... (we see 1 and 7)
>> 7/8 = 0,875 (we see 7 and 8)
>> etc.
>>
>> Is S a permutation of the natural numbers > 0?
>>
>> Best,
>> É.
>>
>>
>>
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