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.  :)

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