OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Height (from a vertex to the opposite face) of regular tetrahedron with unit edge. - Stanislav Sykora, May 31 2012
The eccentricity of the ellipse of minimum area that is circumscribing two equal and externally tangent circles (Kotani, 1995). - Amiram Eldar, Mar 06 2022
The standard deviation of a roll of a 3-sided die. - Mohammed Yaseen, Feb 23 2023
REFERENCES
L. B. W. Jolley, Summation of Series, Dover, 1961, eq. (168) on page 32.
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Jisho Kotani, Problem 2053, Crux Mathematicorum, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1995), p. 202; Solution to Problem 2053, by David Hankin, ibid., Vol. 22, No. 4 (1996), pp. 187-188.
D. H. Lehmer, Interesting series involving the Central Binomial Coefficient, Am. Math. Monthly, Vol. 92, No. 7 (1985), pp. 449-457.
FORMULA
Equals 1 - (1/2)/2 + (1*3)/(2*4)/2^2 - (1*3*5)/(2*4*6)/2^3 + ... [Jolley]
Equals Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n*binomial(2n,n)/8^n = 1/A115754. Averaging this constant with sqrt(2) = A002193 = Sum_{n>=0} binomial(2n,n)/8^n yields A145439.
From Michal Paulovic, Dec 08 2022: (Start)
Equals 2 * A020763.
Has periodic continued fraction expansion [0, 1, 4; 2, 4]. (End)
Equals exp(-arctanh(1/5)). - Amiram Eldar, Jul 10 2023
EXAMPLE
0.8164965809277260327324280249...
MAPLE
evalf(sqrt(2/3)) ;
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[Sqrt[2/3], 10, 200]][[1]] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 04 2011*)
PROG
(PARI) sqrt(2/3) \\ G. C. Greubel, Mar 30 2018
(Magma) Sqrt(2/3); // G. C. Greubel, Mar 30 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
AUTHOR
R. J. Mathar, Mar 04 2009
STATUS
approved