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A295421
Decimal expansion of the sum of the reciprocals of the dodecahedral numbers (A006566).
5
1, 0, 7, 2, 7, 8, 0, 6, 1, 3, 3, 4, 9, 1, 6, 2, 2, 3, 8, 7, 9, 8, 2, 4, 9, 5, 3, 1, 0, 7, 9, 4, 4, 5, 0, 4, 1, 4, 5, 4, 8, 6, 3, 5, 3, 5, 4, 0, 4, 9, 8, 6, 6, 8, 5, 7, 5, 2, 7, 8, 5, 9, 0, 2, 6, 2, 5, 9, 4, 3, 3, 3, 1, 8, 6, 1, 6, 1, 7, 3, 7, 5, 2, 1, 5, 7, 6
OFFSET
1,3
FORMULA
Sum_{n>=1} 2/(n(3n-1)(3n-2)) = 1/1 + 1/20 + 1/84 + 1/220 + 1/455 + ... = (sqrt(3)*Pi - 3*log(3))/2.
EXAMPLE
1.07278061334916223879...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[Sum[2/(n(3n-1)(3n-2)), {n, 1, Infinity}], 10, 100][[1]]
PROG
(PARI) (sqrt(3)*Pi - 3*log(3))/2 \\ Michel Marcus, Nov 23 2017
CROSSREFS
Cf. A006566 (dodecahedral numbers).
Sums of inverses: A152623 (tetrahedral numbers), A002117 (cubes), A175577 (octahedral numbers), A175578 (icosahedral numbers).
Sequence in context: A096052 A003677 A301864 * A217172 A248791 A253383
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Nov 22 2017
STATUS
approved