OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Jonathan M. Borwein and Armin Straub, Special Values of Generalized Log-sine Integrals, ISSAC '11: Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, 2011, pp. 43-50.
Armin Straub, A Mathematica package for evaluating log-sine integrals
FORMULA
-Integral_{0..5*Pi/3} log(3*sin(x/2))^2 dx = (1/108)*(-11*Pi^3 + 24*Sqrt(3)*Pi^2*Log(3/2) - 180*Pi*Log(3/2)^2 - 36*Sqrt(3)*Log(3/2)*PolyGamma(1, 1/3)).
Equals (-Integral_{0..2 Pi} log(3*sin(x/2))^2 dx) - (-Integral_{0..Pi/3} log(3*sin(x/2))^2 dx). (This formula was suggested by Mathematica.)
EXAMPLE
-4.841900132896448626653713755364830580644916393751353477278...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[(1/108)*(-11*Pi^3 + 24*Sqrt[3]*Pi^2*Log[3/2] - 180*Pi*Log[3/2]^2 - 36*Sqrt[3]*Log[3/2]*PolyGamma[1, 1/3]), 10, 100] // First
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AUTHOR
Detlef Meya, Jan 16 2025
STATUS
approved