%I #94 Oct 19 2024 18:39:50
%S 2,8,2,8,4,2,7,1,2,4,7,4,6,1,9,0,0,9,7,6,0,3,3,7,7,4,4,8,4,1,9,3,9,6,
%T 1,5,7,1,3,9,3,4,3,7,5,0,7,5,3,8,9,6,1,4,6,3,5,3,3,5,9,4,7,5,9,8,1,4,
%U 6,4,9,5,6,9,2,4,2,1,4,0,7,7,7,0,0,7,7,5,0,6,8,6,5,5,2,8,3,1,4,5,4,7
%N Decimal expansion of square root of 8.
%C Sqrt(8) = 2*sqrt(2) is the length of the longest (rigid) ladder that can be carried horizontally around a right angled corner in a hallway of unit width. - _Lekraj Beedassy_, Apr 19 2006
%C Continued fraction expansion is 2 followed by {1, 4} repeated. - _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 05 2009
%C This is the second Lagrange number. - _Alonso del Arte_, Dec 06 2011
%C Also 2*sqrt(2) is the ratio of the perimeter of a square to its diameter (diagonal length). - _Rick L. Shepherd_, Dec 29 2016
%C Uchiyama shows that every interval (n, n + c*n^(1/4)) contains an integer that is the sum of two squares, where c = 2^(3/2). - _Michel Marcus_, Jan 03 2018
%C This is the area of the eighth-smallest triangle with integer side lengths (2, 3, 3), or the seventh-smallest triangle if two smaller triangles with the same area are counted only once (see A331251). - _Hugo Pfoertner_, Feb 12 2020
%C Diameter of a sphere whose surface area equals 8*Pi. More generally, the square root of x is also the diameter of a sphere whose surface area equals x*Pi. - _Omar E. Pol_, Feb 13 2020
%C Sqrt(8) = area between the curves y = sin(x) and y = cos(x) for Pi/4 < x < 5 Pi/4; this is one of infinitely many congruent convex regions bounded by the two curves. - _Clark Kimberling_, May 03 2020
%C Area of the regular 8-gon with circumradius =1. - _R. J. Mathar_, Aug 24 2023
%D S. R. Finch, Moving Sofa Constant, Sect. 8.12 in Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 519-523, 2003.
%H Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A010466/b010466.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000</a>
%H Jason Kimberley, <a href="/wiki/User:Jason_Kimberley/sqrt_base">Index of expansions of sqrt(d) in base b</a>
%H R. J. Nemiroff & J. Bonnell, <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/sqrt8.1mil">The first 1 million digits of the square root of 8</a>
%H R. J. Nemiroff & J. Bonnell, Plouffe's Inverter, <a href="https://wayback.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/dataB/isc/C/sqrt8.txt">The first 1 million digits of the square root of 8</a>
%H Ana Rechtman, <a href="https://images-archive.math.cnrs.fr/Juin-2023-3e-defi.html">Juin 2023, 3e défi</a>, Images des Mathématiques, CNRS, 2023.
%H S. Uchiyama, <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2115/56058">On the distribution of integers representable as a sum of two h-th powers</a>, J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Ser. I, 18, 124-127, 1964/1965.
%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingLadderProblem.html">Moving Ladder Problem</a>
%H <a href="/index/Al#algebraic_02">Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2</a>
%F Equals 1 + Sum_{n>=1} ( Product_{k=1..n} (2k+1)/(4k) ). - _Bruno Berselli_, Mar 16 2014
%F Equals 2*A002193. - _R. J. Mathar_, Jan 14 2021
%F From _Peter Bala_, Mar 01 2022: (Start)
%F Equals 3*Sum_{n >= 0} (1/(4*n+1) - 1/(4*n-3))*binomial(1/2,n). Cf. A002580 and A175576.
%F Equals 4*hypergeom([-1/2, -3/4], [5/4], -1). (End)
%F Equals 8 * A020765. - _R. J. Mathar_, Aug 24 2023
%e 2.828427124746190097603377448419396157139343750753896146353359475981464...
%e Sqrt(8) = sqrt(1+2*i*sqrt(2)) + sqrt(1-2*i*sqrt(2)) = sqrt(1/2+2*i*sqrt(3)) + sqrt(1/2-2*i*sqrt(3)), where i=sqrt(-1). - _Bruno Berselli_, Nov 20 2012
%e 1 + 3/4 + 3*5/(4*8) + 3*5*7/(4*8*12) + 3*5*7*9/(4*8*12*16) + ... - _Bruno Berselli_, Mar 16 2014
%p evalf(2^(3/2)) ; # _R. J. Mathar_, Jul 15 2013
%t RealDigits[N[Sqrt[8],200]][[1]] (* _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, Mar 04 2011 *)
%o (PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=sqrt(8); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b010466.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 02 2009
%o (Magma) SetDefaultRealField(RealField(100)); Sqrt(8); // _Vincenzo Librandi_, Feb 13 2020
%Y Cf. A040005 (continued fraction).
%Y Cf. A331250, A331251.
%K nonn,cons,changed
%O 1,1
%A _N. J. A. Sloane_