With thanks to James Higham whose post alerted me to this.
I explained that there appears to be a surprisingly consistent pattern if you plot the number of digits against date discovered back in 2016.
Here's the updated chart:
UPDATE: It turns out I needn't have bothered doing my own spreadsheet, the relevant Wiki article includes a much longer term chart showing exactly the same phenomenon: "The red line is the exponential curve of best fit: y = exp(0.187394 t - 360.527), where t is in years."
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