Newsgroups: sci.math, rec.puzzles
From: Dan Hoey <haoyuep@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:11:43 -0400
Subject: Re: One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones

James Van Buskirk wrote:
> "Dan Hoey" <haoyuep@aol.com> wrote
>> According to http://oeis.org/A082837, the sum of reciprocals of
>> positive integers that don't have the digit 8 is
>> 22.726365402679370602833644156742557889210702616360219843536376162.
>> For those without the digit 9, http://oeis.org/A082838 has
>> 22.920676619264150348163657094375931914944762436998481568541998356.
>> Robert Baillie has a paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4410v2 that
>> covers these and related topics and includes Mathematica code.

> Jeez, I did these about a quarter centruy ago.  Maybe I should have
> published.

You might want to look at that paper.  It covers a lot of related
topics.  Also, there wasn't an arxiv 25 years ago.

Dan