Problem

Source: ITAMO 2018

Tags: combinatorics



$5.$Let x be a real number with $0<x<1$ and let $0.c_1c_2c_3...$ be the decimal expansion of x.Denote by $B(x)$ the set of all subsequences of $c_1c_2c_3$ that consist of 6 consecutive digits. For instance , $B(\frac{1}{22})={045454,454545,545454}$ Find the minimum number of elements of $B(x)$ as $x$ varies among all irrational numbers with $0<x<1$