OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
Markus Deserno, Notes on Differential Geometry, with special emphasis on surfaces in R^3, 2004. See p. 28.
Lev A. Slobozhanin, J. Iwan, D. Alexander and Viral D. Patel, The stability margin for stable weightless liquid bridges, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2002), pp. 209-224. See p. 222.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Minimal Surface of Revolution.
FORMULA
Equals 2*Pi*A085984.
EXAMPLE
7.53780320580457797882651822069283034551193592152611...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[2 * Pi * x /. FindRoot[x == Coth[x], {x, 1}, WorkingPrecision -> 120], 10, 100][[1]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Jun 25 2021
STATUS
approved