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Decimal expansion of k3, a Diophantine approximation constant such that the conjectured volume of the "critical parallelepiped" is 2^3*k3 (the 3-D analog of A242671).
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%I #6 Jul 10 2015 19:25:21

%S 5,7,8,4,1,6,7,6,2,7,8,8,9,0,0,7,5,9,0,7,4,6,0,2,0,5,8,1,4,6,1,9,5,6,

%T 7,4,7,9,9,4,8,3,9,6,9,4,3,6,6,4,5,5,0,1,5,4,8,3,1,7,6,7,4,9,4,1,7,9,

%U 6,0,2,0,8,2,4,1,2,2,0,7,1,4,5,0,6,5,8,2,7,4,8,7,0,0,2,7,9,3,9,1

%N Decimal expansion of k3, a Diophantine approximation constant such that the conjectured volume of the "critical parallelepiped" is 2^3*k3 (the 3-D analog of A242671).

%D Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 2.23 Diophantine approximation constants, p. 176.

%F 8/7*cos(2*Pi/7)*cos(Pi/7)^2.

%F Also equals the positive root of 343*x^3 - 147*x^2 - 28*x - 1.

%e 0.578416762788900759074602058146195674799483969436645501548317674941796...

%t RealDigits[8/7*Cos[2*Pi/7]*Cos[Pi/7]^2, 10, 100] // First

%Y Cf. A242671.

%K nonn,cons,easy

%O 0,1

%A _Jean-François Alcover_, Jul 16 2014