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A103712
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Decimal expansion of the expected distance from a randomly selected point in the unit square to its center: (sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6.
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7
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3, 8, 2, 5, 9, 7, 8, 5, 8, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, 3, 0, 0, 8, 1, 9, 8, 2, 4, 8, 3, 9, 7, 9, 3, 2, 9, 7, 2, 0, 3, 3, 9, 3, 9, 7, 6, 3, 9, 1, 3, 9, 8, 8, 3, 2, 9, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 0, 6, 8, 4, 9, 4, 3, 7, 8, 0, 6, 8, 8, 8, 5, 4, 4, 4, 7, 3, 4, 9, 0, 7, 1, 0, 3, 9, 6, 4, 9, 6, 0, 2, 5, 9, 8, 6, 2, 5
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OFFSET
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0,1
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COMMENTS
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Is it a coincidence that this constant is equal to 1/6 of the universal parabolic constant A103710? (Reese, 2004; Finch, 2012)
exp(d(2)) - exp(d(2))/Pi = 0.9994179247351742... ~ 1 - 1/1718. - Gerald McGarvey, Feb 21 2005
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REFERENCES
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S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, section 8.1.
S. Reese, A universal parabolic constant, 2004, preprint.
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LINKS
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Ivan Panchenko, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Errata and Addenda, 2012, section 8.1.
Steven R. Finch, Errata and Addenda to Mathematical Constants, Jan 22 2016. [Cached copy, with permission of the author]
S. Reese, Pohle Colloquium Video Lecture: The universal parabolic constant, Feb 02 2005
S. Reese, J. Sondow, Eric W. Weisstein, MathWorld: Universal Parabolic Constant
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Universal Parabolic Constant
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Square Line Picking
Wikipedia, Universal parabolic constant
Index entries for transcendental numbers
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FORMULA
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Equals 1/3*Integral_{x = 0..1} sqrt(1 + x^2) dx. - Peter Bala, Feb 28 2019
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EXAMPLE
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0.38259785823210634567238300819824839793297203393976391398832922444...
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MATHEMATICA
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RealDigits[(Sqrt[2] + Log[1 + Sqrt[2]])/2, 10, 111][[1]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Feb 14 2005 *)
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PROG
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(Maxima) fpprec: 100$ ev(bfloat((sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6)); /* Martin Ettl, Oct 17 2012 */
(PARI) (sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6 \\ G. C. Greubel, Sep 22 2017
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CROSSREFS
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Equal to (A002193 + A091648)/6 = (A103710)/6 = (A103711)/3.
Sequence in context: A202537 A220516 A010627 * A327951 A132019 A182168
Adjacent sequences: A103709 A103710 A103711 * A103713 A103714 A103715
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KEYWORD
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cons,easy,nonn
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AUTHOR
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Sylvester Reese and Jonathan Sondow, Feb 13 2005
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STATUS
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approved
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