OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria calculated this constant as 4 + 9/14 in the first century AD, see Deslauriers & Dubuc or Metrica book III section 20. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 12 2012
LINKS
Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
G. Deslauriers and S. Dubuc, Le calcul de la racine cubique selon Héron, Elem. Math. 51 (1996), pp. 28-34.
EXAMPLE
4.6415888336127788924100763509194465765513491250112436376506928586847778...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[N[100^(1/3), 200]][[1]] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 24 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) { default(realprecision, 20080); x=100^(1/3); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b010670.txt", n, " ", d)); } \\ Harry J. Smith, May 08 2009
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Final digits of sequence corrected using the b-file by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 30 2009
STATUS
approved