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A352455
Decimal expansion of the surface area of the solid formed by the intersection of 8 unit-radius spheres that have the vertices of a unit-side cube as centers.
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3, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1, 8, 7, 4, 0, 1, 0, 7, 8, 3, 2, 1, 8, 3, 8, 0, 4, 4, 3, 0, 5, 1, 0, 1, 4, 5, 0, 5, 1, 4, 6, 8, 1, 1, 8, 6, 8, 7, 4, 5, 5, 3, 1, 9, 3, 2, 7, 1, 2, 3, 5, 0, 5, 1, 5, 7, 1, 9, 5, 9, 4, 2, 9, 3, 6, 3, 3, 2, 1, 0, 2, 9, 3, 1, 8, 1, 9, 2, 4, 5, 7, 0, 7, 7, 1, 3, 6, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 0, 9, 2, 5, 1, 9, 2, 0
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
The volume of the solid formed by the intersection is A352454.
LINKS
Kee-wai Lau, Problem 1189, Crux Mathematicorum, Vol. 12, No. 9 (1986), p. 242; Solution to Problem 1189, by Rex Westbrook, ibid., Vol. 14, No. 2 (1988), pp. 51-53.
FORMULA
Equals 22*Pi - 72*arctan(sqrt(2)).
EXAMPLE
0.33224187401078321838044305101450514681186874553193...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[22*Pi - 72*ArcTan[Sqrt[2]], 10, 100][[1]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Mar 16 2022
STATUS
approved