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I read about the Champernowne constant on Wikipedia a couple of days ago, and I got curious about something similar: is there some "Champernowne-like" number; that is, a concatenation of all numbers up to some $n \ge 2$ (like $1234567891011$), that is a perfect square? I've done a computer search up to $n=2000$, but I haven't found any.

Are there any? If not, how may we prove this? Any thoughts on this are welcome!

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    [This](http://oeis.org/A007908) says that the proper name for your sequence is the "Smarandache consecutive sequence". See [Smarandache's book](http://fs.gallup.unm.edu//OPNS.pdf) for instance.2011-12-14
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    None to $10^4.$ It should be possible to test this more efficiently than testing individual members (find the first digits of a square root, then square and see if the result is close to an integer) but I haven't attempted anything along those lines.2011-12-14
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    @J.M.: Thanks, I will have a look.2011-12-14
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    @J.M.: I'm pretty sure Smarandache was not the first to study this sequence!2011-12-14
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    @Charles: I'm sure you're right, but it was his name that got used... :)2011-12-14

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