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The sum of reciprocals 1/n where n does not contain 9 as a digit converges. Such a sum is called a depleted harmonic series.
There's nothing special about 9 here. We can consider the sum of all 1/n where n doesn't have the block of digits 12121212121212 in it. That sum also converges. Combining this with a theorem about primes which goes back to Euler, we will see that there are infinitely many primes which contain 12121212121212 as a block of its digits.
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