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A272534
Decimal expansion of the edge length of a regular 15-gon with unit circumradius.
7
4, 1, 5, 8, 2, 3, 3, 8, 1, 6, 3, 5, 5, 1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 2, 0, 3, 4, 8, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 1, 0, 2, 5, 0, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 1, 6, 9, 5, 2, 1, 2, 5, 5, 4, 4, 7, 6, 7, 2, 8, 1, 4, 3, 6, 3, 9, 4, 7, 7, 6, 4, 7, 6, 5, 6, 5, 1, 3, 2, 8, 1, 4, 8, 7, 5, 2, 6, 0, 9, 2, 5, 7, 5, 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 1, 4, 6, 1, 1, 5, 7, 3, 0
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
15-gon is the first m-gon with odd composite m which is constructible (see A003401) in virtue of the fact that 15 is the product of two distinct Fermat primes (A019434). The next such case is 51-gon (m=3*17), followed by 85-gon (m=5*17), 771-gon (m=3*257), etc.
From Wolfdieter Lang, Apr 29 2018: (Start)
This constant appears in a historic problem posed by Adriaan van Roomen (Adrianus Romanus) in his Ideae mathematicae from 1593, solved by Viète. See the Havil reference, problem 4, pp. 69-74. See also the comments in A302711 with a link to Romanus' book, Exemplum quaesitum.
This problem is equivalent to R(45, 2*sin(Pi/675)) = 2*sin(Pi/15), with a special case of monic Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind, named R, given in A127672. For the constant 2*sin(Pi/675) see A302716. (End)
REFERENCES
Julian Havil, The Irrationals, A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2012, pp. 69-74.
FORMULA
Equals 2*sin(Pi/m) for m=15.
Also equals (sqrt(3) - sqrt(15) + sqrt(10 + 2*sqrt(5)))/4.
Also equals sqrt(7 - sqrt(5) - sqrt(30 - 6*sqrt(5)))/2. This is the rewritten expression of the Havil reference on top of p. 70. - Wolfdieter Lang, Apr 29 2018
EXAMPLE
0.415823381635518674203484568810250332433169521255447672814363947...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[N[2Sin[Pi/15], 100]][[1]] (* Robert Price, May 02 2016*)
PROG
(PARI) 2*sin(Pi/15)
CROSSREFS
Edge lengths of other constructible m-gons: A002194 (m=3), A002193 (4), A182007 (5), A101464 (8), A094214 (10), A101263 (12), A272535 (16), A228787 (17), A272536 (20).
Sequence in context: A242131 A177266 A356124 * A332522 A173386 A011443
KEYWORD
nonn,cons,easy
AUTHOR
Stanislav Sykora, May 02 2016
STATUS
approved