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A242461 Decimal expansion of the first positive solution to exp(1-1/x)/x = 1/2, a binary search tree constant. 0

%I #8 Oct 23 2015 02:31:45

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

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

%U 0,5,6,5,5,1,3,3,5,3,3,3,5,5,8,8,8,1,6,9,8,8,9,0,6,5,0,3,8,8,6,8

%N Decimal expansion of the first positive solution to exp(1-1/x)/x = 1/2, a binary search tree constant.

%C The saturation level S_n of a binary search tree defined by a random n-permutation is such that S_n/log(n) converges to 0.3733646... in probability.

%D Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 349-352.

%H Luc Devroye, <a href="http://luc.devroye.org/devroye_1986_univ_a_note_on_the_height_of_binary_search_trees.pdf">A Note on the Height of Binary Search Trees.</a> McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1986).

%F -1/W(-1, -1/(2*e)) where W is the Lambert W function (ProductLog).

%e 0.373364617701674084248448436679270595...

%t RealDigits[-1/ProductLog[-1, -1/(2*E)], 10, 100] // First

%Y Cf. A076615, A076616, A195581, A195582, A195596.

%K nonn,cons

%O 0,1

%A _Jean-François Alcover_, May 15 2014

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