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A068467 Decimal expansion of (1/4)! = Gamma(5/4). 2
9, 0, 6, 4, 0, 2, 4, 7, 7, 0, 5, 5, 4, 7, 7, 0, 7, 7, 9, 8, 2, 6, 7, 1, 2, 8, 8, 9, 6, 6, 9, 1, 8, 0, 0, 0, 7, 4, 8, 7, 9, 1, 9, 2, 0, 7, 2, 0, 0, 1, 6, 3, 6, 6, 8, 5, 8, 3, 4, 4, 4, 9, 9, 8, 9, 2, 4, 7, 9, 8, 1, 0, 8, 8, 4, 6, 8, 2, 2, 8, 0, 4, 0, 4, 5, 9, 0, 0, 3, 4, 1, 8, 0, 8, 4, 6, 0, 7, 5, 0, 9, 0, 3, 6 (list; constant; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

J. M. Borwein and I. J. Zucker: Fast evaluation of the gamma function for small rational fractions using complete elliptic integrals of the first kind, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 519-526, 1992.

Greg Martin: A product of Gamma function values at fractions with the same denominator, arXiv:0907.4384v1 [math.CA], 24-July-2009. URL: urlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4384.

Albert Nijenhuis: Small Gamma Products with Simple Values, arXiv:0907.1689v1 [math.CA], 9-July-2009. URL: urlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1689.

Raimundas Vidunas: Expressions for values of the gamma function, arXiv:math.CA/0403510, 30-March-2004. URL: urlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403510.

FORMULA

2^(3/4)*(2/E^(16*Pi) + 1)* Pi^(3/4)/(2^(13/16)/(Sqrt[2] - 1)^(1/4) + 2^(1/4) + 1) is a very good approximation (~88 digits) which becomes exact if you replace (2/E^(16*Pi) + 1) by EllipticTheta[3,0,E^-(16*Pi)]. [R. W. Gosper, Posting to Math Fun Mailing List, Dec 27 2011.]

EXAMPLE

0.906402477055477077982671288966918000748791920720...

CROSSREFS

Cf. A202623.

Sequence in context: A199789 A019874 A197520 * A131223 A198213 A093766

Adjacent sequences:  A068464 A068465 A068466 * A068468 A068469 A068470

KEYWORD

cons,easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Mar 10 2002

EXTENSIONS

Removed leading zero and adjusted offset R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Feb 06 2009

Additional reference from Joerg Arndt, Dec 28 2011. Edited by N. J. A. Sloane,, Dec 28 2011.

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