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”).

Decimal expansion of c(4), a constant appearing in certain Euler double sums not expressible in terms of well-known constants.
1

%I #5 Sep 17 2014 11:28:10

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

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

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

%N Decimal expansion of c(4), a constant appearing in certain Euler double sums not expressible in terms of well-known constants.

%H J. M. Borwein, I.J. Zucker and J. Boersma, <a href="http://carma.newcastle.edu.au/MZVs/mzv-week05.pdf">The evaluation of character Euler double sums</a>, The Ramanujan Journal, April 2008, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp 377-405, see p. 17 c(4).

%F c(n) = sum_{k=0..n-2} (n-2)!/k!*log(2)^k*Li_(n-k)(1/2) + log(2)^n/n.

%F c(4) = (1/12)*((-Pi^2)*log(2)^2 + log(2)^4 + 24*Li_4(1/2) + 21*log(2)*zeta(3)).

%e 2.117141734777039411129100226012451751917680766916084...

%t c[4] = (1/12)*((-Pi^2)*Log[2]^2 + Log[2]^4 + 24*PolyLog[4, 1/2] + 21*Log[2]*Zeta[3]); RealDigits[c[4], 10, 104] // First

%Y Cf. A002162 c(1), A072691 c(2), A233091 c(3).

%K nonn,cons,easy

%O 1,1

%A _Jean-François Alcover_, Sep 17 2014