OFFSET
0,1
LINKS
Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya, and Lenny Ng, Solutions to the 61st William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Saturday, December 2, 2000, The Putnam Archive. See Problem A-4.
Editors of the Mathematics Magazine, The 61st Annual William Lowell Putnam Examination, News and Letters, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 74, No. 1 (2001), pp. 75-83. See Problem A4, pages 77 and 79-80.
Jihyung Kang and others, Convergence of I = Integral_0^oo sinx sin(x2) dx, Mathematics StackExchange, 2017.
Leonard F. Klosinski, Gerald L. Alexanderson, and Loren C. Larson, The Sixty-first William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 108, No. 9 (2001), pp. 841-850. See pages 843 and 846, Problem A4.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fresnel Integrals.
Wikipedia, Fresnel integral.
FORMULA
Equals sqrt(Pi/2) * (cos(1/4) * FresnelC(1/sqrt(2*Pi)) + sin(1/4) * FresnelS(1/sqrt(2*Pi))), where FresnelC(x) and FresnelS(x) are the Fresnel integrals C(x) and S(x), respectively.
Equals Integral_{x=0..1/2} cos(x^2 - 1/4) dx.
EXAMPLE
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MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[Integrate[Sin[x]*Sin[x^2], {x, 0, Infinity}], 10, 120][[1]]
(* Alternative: *)
RealDigits[Sqrt[Pi/2] * (Cos[1/4] * FresnelC[1/Sqrt[2*Pi]] + Sin[1/4] * FresnelS[1/Sqrt[2*Pi]]), 10, 120][[1]]
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AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Aug 22 2025
STATUS
approved
