login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A201321
Decimal expansion of x satisfying 3*x^2 - 1 = cot(x) and 0 < x < Pi.
2
8, 0, 7, 5, 8, 5, 2, 8, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 0, 1, 9, 9, 3, 9, 2, 6, 5, 8, 1, 6, 7, 9, 5, 3, 7, 2, 4, 0, 7, 5, 4, 2, 3, 7, 2, 5, 4, 0, 7, 9, 4, 3, 0, 3, 7, 3, 1, 8, 9, 3, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 3, 8, 9, 5, 5, 0, 1, 6, 9, 8, 7, 0, 9, 9, 8, 9, 7, 1, 7, 7, 8, 2, 9, 3, 7, 3, 8, 9, 2, 5, 6, 5, 5, 3, 0, 3, 7, 2, 0
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
See A201280 for a guide to related sequences. The Mathematica program includes a graph.
EXAMPLE
x=0.807585281442201993926581679537240754...
MATHEMATICA
a = 3; c = -1;
f[x_] := a*x^2 + c; g[x_] := Cot[x]
Plot[{f[x], g[x]}, {x, 0, Pi/2}, {AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}}]
r = x /. FindRoot[f[x] == g[x], {x, .8, .9}, WorkingPrecision -> 110]
RealDigits[r] (* A201321 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A201280.
Sequence in context: A261613 A165268 A306071 * A245737 A198221 A183001
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Clark Kimberling, Nov 30 2011
STATUS
approved