OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
The mean volume of a tetrahedron whose vertices are uniformly and independently selected at random on the surface of a sphere of unit radius.
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants II, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 716.
LINKS
Steven R. Finch, Random Triangles VI, 2011, p. 3.
Lothar Heinrich, R. Körner, N. Mehlhorn, and Lutz Muche, Numerical and analytical computation of some second-order characteristics of spatial Poisson-Voronoi tessellations, Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Vol. 31 No. 3 (1998), pp. 235-259.
Roger E. Miles, Isotropic random simplices, Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1971), pp. 353-382.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sphere Tetrahedron Picking.
EXAMPLE
0.119679720136754028131910224124933443207511215214289...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[4*Pi/105, 10, 120][[1]]
PROG
(PARI) 4*Pi/105
CROSSREFS
Tetrahedron volume in: A093524 (cube), A093525 (tetrahedron), A093591 (ball), this constant (surface of sphere), A394170 (octahedron), A394171 (rhombic dodecahedron), A394172 (cuboctahedron), A394173 (truncated tetrahedron), A394174 (triangular bipyramid), A394175 (triangular prism), A394176 (square pyramid).
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Mar 11 2026
STATUS
approved
