OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria calculated this constant as 4 + 9/14 in the first century AD, see Deslauriers & Dubuc or Metrica book III section 20. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 12 2012
One "hectoliter" is a non-SI metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters, which is the volume of a cube with an edge of 10*100^(1/3) cm (46.4158883... cm). - Jean-François Alcover, Dec 14 2024
LINKS
Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
G. Deslauriers and S. Dubuc, Le calcul de la racine cubique selon Héron, Elem. Math. 51 (1996), pp. 28-34.
FORMULA
Equals A010582^2. - Hugo Pfoertner, Dec 14 2024
EXAMPLE
4.6415888336127788924100763509194465765513491250112436376506928586847778...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[N[100^(1/3), 200]][[1]] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 24 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) { default(realprecision, 20080); x=100^(1/3); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b010670.txt", n, " ", d)); } \\ Harry J. Smith, May 08 2009
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AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Final digits of sequence corrected using the b-file by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 30 2009
STATUS
approved