An interactive mathematical bestiary · IPAK-EDU

Champernowne’s Constant,
and other Strange Creatures and Rare Monsters

Patterns that appear. Patterns that persist. Follow ten examples from 100 to 100,000 positions. Count their digits, reveal their structure, and inspect what changes when the scale grows.

10Examples
4Scales
100,000Positions each

All values use the full digit stream. Dense traces retain within-bin extrema for display. Drag to zoom; use the position inspector for exact values.

Inspect an exact position

What the graph measures

Every number. Every requested scale.

Open any of the 40 signature views.

What is—and is not—being measured

Construction, numerical verification, and display conventions.

Position is the fractional digit index

Position 1 is the first digit after the point; the integer part is never counted. Eight views use base 10, Thue–Morse uses base 2, and the BBP view of π uses base 16. These are different digit systems, not interchangeable sequences.

Every statistic uses every position

Counts and frequencies are computed from all digits, not a sampled subset. Dense plots retain first, last, minimum, and maximum values within display bins. Zooming recalculates the display from the full data. The inspector and CSV export retain exact positions.

Exact constructions and high precision

Fractions use integer long division; constructed streams use their defining rules. Numerical constants were evaluated at two high precisions with 80 and 140 extra decimal digits beyond the precision required for 100,000 hexadecimal positions. All retained prefixes agree. This is a numerical stability check, not a formal interval proof of every decimal digit.

Local frequency has one explicit denominator

For window width w, the value at x counts the selected digit in positions max(1, x−w+1)…x and divides by min(w, x). The window width does not silently change with the selected range.

References are illustrations, not p-values

The uniform stream is reproducible pseudorandom data with seed 20261003. A shuffled prefix preserves the exact histogram of the selected number at the selected range. No confidence bands or significance claims are implied; choosing a striking pattern after looking at many patterns needs separate statistical treatment.

The BBP probe is a separate computation

The bulk hexadecimal stream comes from high-precision π. The probe directly evaluates the BBP sums at the requested position using exact modular arithmetic and fixed-point integer error bounds. A result is accepted only when both bounds produce the same extracted block; that block is then compared with the stored stream.