 The next distinct sequence of six consecutive identical digits starts with the digit 8 at position 222,299, while strings of nine 9's next occur at position 590,331,982 and 640,787,382.The positions of the first occurrence of a string of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 consecutive 9's in the decimal expansion are 5; 44; 762; 762; 762; 762; 1,722,776; 36,356,642; and 564,665,206, respectively .The first 1,001 digits of (1,000 decimal digits), showing consecutive runs of three or more digits including the consecutive six 9's underlined, are as follows