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A086311
Decimal expansion of constant appearing in the variance for searching in a digital tree.
3
2, 8, 4, 4, 3, 8, 3, 1, 6, 8, 1, 1, 6, 7, 5, 6, 1, 6, 8, 2, 1, 6, 2, 2, 5, 7, 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 0, 0, 8, 2, 6, 6, 4, 8, 9, 0, 3, 8, 5, 3, 0, 9, 0, 8, 7, 1, 0, 7, 7, 4, 3, 9, 5, 5, 3, 7, 5, 4, 6, 6, 6, 3, 6, 8, 1, 9, 0, 2, 3, 9, 4, 2, 4, 1, 2, 7, 7, 7, 4, 8, 8, 2, 1, 9, 5, 7, 9, 1, 7, 1, 8, 4, 8, 8, 0, 2, 5
OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 5.14 Digital Search Tree Constants, p. 356.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Tree Searching
FORMULA
1/12 + (Pi^2+6)/(6*log(2)^2) - alpha - beta, where gamma is Euler's constant, alpha is the Erdős-Borwein constant (A065442) and beta is A065443. - Jean-François Alcover, Jul 29 2014, after Steven Finch
EXAMPLE
2.84438316811675616821622572314100826648903853090871...
MATHEMATICA
digits = 102; alpha = NSum[1/(2^k-1), {k, 1, 500}, NSumTerms -> 100, WorkingPrecision -> digits+10]; beta = NSum[1/(2^k-1)^2, {k, 1, 500}, NSumTerms -> 100, WorkingPrecision -> digits+10]; RealDigits[1/12 + (Pi^2+6)/(6*Log[2]^2) - alpha - beta, 10, digits] // First
CROSSREFS
Cf. A086312.
Sequence in context: A373098 A254446 A197486 * A194940 A195920 A227334
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 15 2003
STATUS
approved