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A105419 Decimal expansion of the arc length of the sine or cosine curve for one full period. 1

%I #12 Apr 22 2015 09:19:23

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

%T 5,8,3,8,1,9,9,3,5,2,2,9,2,9,4,5,4,9,4,4,2,1,6,0,9,9,3,3,1,3,4,9,4,3,

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

%N Decimal expansion of the arc length of the sine or cosine curve for one full period.

%D Howard Anton, Irl C. Bivens, Stephen L. Davis, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 7th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY, Section 7.4 Length of a Plane Curve, page 489.

%F Integral_{0, 2Pi} Sqrt(1+Cos(x)^2) dx.

%F Also equals 4*B+Pi/B where B is the lemniscate constant A076390, or sqrt(2/Pi)*(2*gamma(3/4)^4 + Pi^2)/gamma(3/4)^2. [_Jean-François Alcover_, Apr 17 2013]

%e I=7.640395578055424035809524164342886583819935229294549442160993313...

%p evalf(4*sqrt(2)*EllipticE(1/sqrt(2)), 120); # _Vaclav Kotesovec_, Apr 22 2015

%t RealDigits[ NIntegrate[ Sqrt[1 + Cos[x]^2, {x, 0, 2Pi}, MaxRecursion -> 12, WorkingPrecision -> 128], 10, 111][[1]]

%t RealDigits[ N[ 4*Sqrt[2]*EllipticE[1/2], 105]][[1]] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Nov 08 2012 *)

%K cons,nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Robert G. Wilson v_, Apr 06 2005

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