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A190573
Decimal expansion of Integral_{x = 0 to oo} Product_{m=1..oo} cos(x/m) dx.
1
7, 8, 5, 3, 8, 0, 5, 5, 7, 2, 9, 8, 6, 3, 2, 8, 7, 3, 4, 9, 2, 5, 8, 3, 0, 1, 1, 4, 6, 7, 3, 3, 2, 5, 2, 4, 7, 6, 1
OFFSET
0,1
REFERENCES
J. M. Borwein, D. H. Bailey and R. Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics, A K Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2004. x+357 pp. See p. 101.
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 94, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 6.3, p. 429.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Infinite Cosine Product Integral.
EXAMPLE
0.785380557298632873492583011467332524761...
MATHEMATICA
(* This naive script is not suitable to get more than 10 digits. *)
digits = 10; m0 = 500; dm = 50; Clear[g];
f[n_Integer, m_] := NIntegrate[Product[Cos[x/k], {k, 1, m - 1}]*(((1 - x^2/(2*m^2))*Gamma[1 + m]^2)/(Gamma[1 + m - x/Sqrt[2]]*Gamma[1 + m + x/Sqrt[2]])), {x, n*Pi/2, (n + 1)*Pi/2}];
g[m_] := g[m] = NSum[f[n, m], {n, 0, Infinity}];
Print[g[m0]]; Print[g[m = m0 + dm]];
While[RealDigits[g[m], 10, digits][[1]] != RealDigits[g[m - dm], 10, digits][[1]], m = m + dm; Print[m, " ", RealDigits[g[m], 10, digits][[1]]]];
RealDigits[g[m], 10, digits][[1]] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 19 2016 *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A277053 A370466 A076415 * A216542 A216544 A216546
KEYWORD
nonn,cons,more
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, May 12 2011
STATUS
approved