OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Numerical work by Melquiond et al. (see reference) disproves Gramain's conjecture, correct bounds for the Masser-Gramain constant delta are: 1.819776 < delta < 1.819833. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Apr 27 2015
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 94, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 7.2, p. 460.
LINKS
Guillaume Melquiond, W. Georg Nowak, Paul Zimmermann, Numerical approximation of the Masser-Gramain constant to four decimal places, Mathematics of Computation, Volume 82, Number 282, April 2013, Pages 1235-1246.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Masser-Gramain Constant.
EXAMPLE
1.82282524967884703299532871626146494947569311889485021839381561303709...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[ 1 + 2*EulerGamma + 2*Log[2] + 3*Log[Pi] - 4*Log[Gamma[1/4]], 10, 102] // First (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 07 2013, after Eric W. Weisstein *)
PROG
(PARI) 1+2*Euler+2*log(2)+3*log(Pi)-4*lngamma(1/4) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 08 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 07 2003
STATUS
approved