OFFSET
0,3
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 5.4 Golomb-Dickman Constant, p. 285.
LINKS
Xavier Gourdon, Combinatoire, Algorithmique et Géométrie des Polynomes, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris 1996, page 152 (in French).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Golomb-Dickman Constant
Wikipedia, Golomb-Dickman constant
FORMULA
Integral_{0..infinity} x*(1 - e^Ei(-x)*(1 - Ei(-x) + (1/2)*Ei(-x)^2)) dx - (Integral_{0..infinity} 1 - e^Ei(-x)*(1 - Ei(-x) + (1/2)*Ei(-x)^2) dx)^2, where Ei is the exponential integral.
EXAMPLE
0.00449392318179080474794492205756996926493197843077072420750592398...
MATHEMATICA
digits = 98; Ei = ExpIntegralEi; NIntegrate[x*(1 - E^Ei[-x]*(1 - Ei[-x] + (1/2)*Ei[-x]^2)), {x, 0, 100}, WorkingPrecision -> digits + 5] - NIntegrate[1 - E^Ei[-x]*(1 - Ei[-x] + (1/2)*Ei[-x]^2), {x, 0, 100}, WorkingPrecision -> digits + 5]^2 // Join[{0, 0}, RealDigits[#, 10, digits][[1]]]&
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Jean-François Alcover, Apr 29 2016
STATUS
approved