How Normal Is the MRB Constant?

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Move the slider to compute digital expansions, in various bases , of the
constant and
to
digits. The two rows of integers under the row of digits
are the frequencies
of the digits in the base
expansions of
and
. The two rows of decimal numbers are
for
and
.
Contributed by: Marvin Ray Burns (March 2011)
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According to Wolfram MathWorld, "A normal number is an irrational number for which any finite pattern of numbers occurs with the expected limiting frequency in the expansion in a given base (or all bases). For example, for a normal decimal number, each digit 0–9 would be expected to occur 1/10 of the time."
We do not know if the MRB constant is irrational; this Demonstration looks at how normal its first 5000 digits appear to be. For comparison, we also consider the digits of ; its first 30 million digits are very uniformly distributed.
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