Series like this are called Kempner series, and there is a nearly 100-year-old paper about them here. Finding their exact sum is generally an intractible problem and we must be content with ...

A convergent series is a mathematical series in which the sequence of partial sums converges to 1. A divergent series is just the opposite — the sums do not meet a finite limit.

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