The irrationality measure of pi is at most 7.6063 [Salikhov, "On the Irrationality Measure of $\pi$", 2008]. I think that translates into "There are at most finitely many n for which digits n through k*n are all 9's" for some k, but I don't know what k is. But none of this answers Jim's / Dick's question (whose answer is surely "it never happens but we don't have a proof"). --Michael On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible that for some n, the n+1st through 2nth digits of pi are all 9's?
Dick Hess just gave a wonderful G4G talk which raised this issue.
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