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A085365 Decimal expansion of polygon-inscribing constant. +0
3
1, 1, 4, 9, 4, 2, 0, 4, 4, 8, 5, 3, 2, 9, 6, 2, 0, 0, 7, 0, 1, 0, 4, 0, 1, 5, 7, 4, 6, 9, 5, 9, 8, 7, 4, 2, 8, 3, 0, 7, 9, 5, 3, 3, 7, 2, 0, 0, 8, 6, 3, 5, 1, 6, 8, 4, 4, 0, 2, 3, 3, 9, 6, 5, 1, 8, 9, 6, 6, 0, 1, 2, 8, 2, 5, 3, 5, 3, 0, 5, 1, 1, 7, 7, 9, 4, 0, 7, 7, 2, 4, 8, 4, 9, 8, 5, 8, 3, 6, 9, 9, 3 (list; cons; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENT

Inscribe an equilateral triangle in a circle of unit radius. Inscribe a circle in the triangle. Inscribe a square in the second circle and inscribe a circle in the square. Inscribe a regular pentagon in the third circle and so on. The radii of the circles converge to Product_{ k = 3..infinity } cos(Pi/k), which is this number. - N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Feb 10 2008

REFERENCES

Dick Katz, Problem 91:24, in R. K. Guy, ed., Western Number Theory Problems, 1992-12-19 & 22.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polygon Inscribing

FORMULA

The log of this constant is equal to Sum_{n=1..infinity} ((2^(2n)-1)/n)*zeta(2n)*(zeta(2n)-1-1/2^(2n)). [Richard McIntosh] - N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Feb 10 2008

EXAMPLE

0.1149420448532...

CROSSREFS

Equals 1/A051762.

Sequence in context: A070516 A143298 A013669 this_sequence A019767 A021091 A096415

Adjacent sequences: A085362 A085363 A085364 this_sequence A085366 A085367 A085368

KEYWORD

nonn,cons

AUTHOR

Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com), Jun 25, 2003

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