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A247046
Decimal expansion of delta_3, a constant associated with a certain 3-dimensional lattice sum.
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2, 3, 1, 3, 6, 9, 8, 7, 0, 3, 8, 8, 2, 3, 2, 0, 6, 0, 3, 5, 8, 8, 8, 0, 9, 8, 7, 4, 0, 6, 1, 1, 5, 5, 0, 0, 8, 3, 5, 6, 3, 5, 7, 1, 3, 5, 5, 9, 5, 9, 6, 5, 9, 6, 2, 1, 7, 4, 5, 6, 1, 5, 7, 4, 9, 4, 7, 9, 4, 4, 9, 7, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 8, 4, 7, 6, 3, 6, 9, 3, 6, 9, 0, 5, 9, 9, 0, 2, 3, 5, 8, 1, 9, 0
OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Sections 1.10 Madelung's constant, p. 79.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Lattice Sum.
FORMULA
Pi_0 + Pi/6, where Pi_0 is A185576.
EXAMPLE
-2.313698703882320603588809874061155008356357135595965962...
MATHEMATICA
digits = 100; k0 = 10; dk = 10; Clear[s]; s[k_] := s[k] = 7*(Pi/6) - 19/2*Log[2] + 4*Sum[(3 + 3*(-1)^m + (-1)^(m + n))*Csch[Pi*Sqrt[m^2 + n^2]]/Sqrt[m^2 + n^2], {m, 1, k}, {n, 1, k}] // N[#, digits + 10] &; s[k0]; s[k = k0 + dk]; While[RealDigits[s[k], 10, digits + 5][[1]] != RealDigits[s[k - dk], 10, digits + 5][[1]], Print["s(", k, ") = ", s[k]]; k = k + dk]; Pi0 = s[k]; delta3 = Pi0 + Pi/6; RealDigits[delta3, 10, digits] // First
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved