Why decimal expansion of $e$ has two copies of $1828$

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Is there any explanation why the block $1828$ occurs twice in the decimal expansion of the transcendental $e$, $2.718281828459\ldots$, but is not recurring?

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I don't believe this question has a good answer, as I don't believe this repetition is very significant.

Similarly, the $762^{\text {nd}}$ digit of $\pi$ begins the Feynman point, a sequence of six $9s$ (Feynman stated he wanted to memorize until this point, so he could recite the digits, ending with "nine nine nine nine nine nine, and so on").

This sequence of numbers in $\pi$ is similarly strange, however, it seems like this is simply a string of numbers that happened to be arranged this way in base $10$ and is a rather insignificant coincidence.