OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Decimal expansion of solution to problem #1 in the Trefethen challenge.
Conjecturally, the value of the Borel sum of the divergent series Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)*(2*n)^(2*n-1). See Finch, p. 62. - Peter Bala, Dec 28 2022
LINKS
Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10001 (from Dirk Laurie's solution)
Folkmar Bornemann, Short remarks on the solution of the SIAM 100-digit challenge, 2002.
Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon, and Jörg Waldvogel, The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2004.
Steven R. Finch, Errata and Addenda to Mathematical Constants, arXiv:2001.00578 [math.HO], 2020-2022.
Walter Gautschi, The numerical evaluation of a challenging integral, Num. Alg. 49 (1-4) (2008) 187-194.
Dirk Laurie, A Twisted Tail, a web page for the book The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hundred-Dollar, Hundred-Digit Challenge Problems.
Wikipedia, Hundred-dollar, Hundred-digit Challenge problems.
EXAMPLE
Integral_{t = 0..1} t^(-1)*cos(t^(-1)*log(t)) dt = 0.32336743167777876139937..
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[ NIntegrate[ ProductLog'[u]*Cos[u], {u, 0, Infinity}, WorkingPrecision -> 220]][[1]][[1 ;; 105]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 26 2012, after W. Gautschi *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 05 2006
STATUS
approved