Candy Bar Challenge Revisited
posted by Sarah Boeder on Mar 17, 2008 (Candy Bar Challenges)
K, guys. I posted this math challenge a long, long time ago. Maybe even before some of you were born. Anyhoo, although I have had people tell me that they are working on it, I have yet to see someone solve it. You could be that person! I decided to re-post it, in case you forgot about it.
SOMEONE PLEASE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM SO I CAN POST A NEW ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suppose I starting writing the numbers from 1 on up, as follows:
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233…
If I had an infinite amount of time and patience (In fact, I have neither!) I could keep this string of digits going forever.
What I want to know is, what is the 2-millionth digit in this string of numbers?
Happy Counting!!
p.s. Take a minute or two to think about this problem before you try it. It can be done rather quickly.


I Know for a fact that it will end in a 10!!
I believe!
AHG!! My mathcounts of awesomeness is failing me!