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A319188
Decimal expansion of Rutherford constant.
1
8, 2, 2, 7, 0, 5, 8, 1, 1, 3, 0, 3, 9, 4, 9, 6, 2, 8, 9, 4, 6, 4, 4, 6, 7, 2, 0, 1, 8, 7, 5, 3, 3, 5, 2, 6, 6, 6, 0, 2, 1, 8, 8, 7, 4, 6, 9, 6, 0, 8, 3, 5, 4, 1, 5, 2, 4, 0, 0, 1, 4, 9, 7, 4, 9, 1, 0, 7, 1, 1, 3, 8, 1, 7, 4, 8, 1, 4, 3, 8, 8, 3, 6, 2, 4, 9, 1
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
This constant is named after British physicist Paul Harding Rutherford. It appears in his equation of growth of nonlinear magnetic islands in tokamaks. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 14 2020
LINKS
Paul Harding Rutherford, Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 11 (1973), pp. 1903-1908, alternative link.
A. Samain, Diamagnetic destabilization of magnetic islands in the non-linear regime, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 26, No. 5 (1984), pp. 731-747.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rutherford Constant
EXAMPLE
0.8227058113039496...
CROSSREFS
Cf. A321592 for continued fraction expansion.
Sequence in context: A072691 A021928 A185111 * A086058 A241017 A114314
KEYWORD
cons,nonn
AUTHOR
Kritsada Moomuang, Dec 17 2018
STATUS
approved