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A395394
Decimal expansion of the volume of the solid of revolution formed by rotating a unit half-width lemniscate of Bernoulli about the vertical axis.
4
1, 7, 4, 4, 7, 1, 6, 0, 4, 9, 9, 0, 9, 7, 1, 9, 8, 8, 3, 5, 3, 9, 3, 9, 0, 2, 3, 4, 0, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 2, 4, 7, 9, 9, 6, 6, 5, 6, 7, 7, 3, 7, 0, 1, 0, 5, 9, 1, 5, 3, 8, 3, 7, 4, 1, 6, 6, 8, 7, 9, 9, 7, 6, 9, 4, 0, 7, 0, 8, 2, 6, 9, 3, 0, 3, 6, 6, 6, 8, 5, 0, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2, 7, 7, 0, 2, 8, 5, 9, 1, 2, 5, 0, 4
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The lemniscate of Bernoulli can be described by (x^2 + y^2)^2 = a^2*(x^2 - y^2) in Cartesian coordinates, or r^2 = a^2*cos(2*phi) in polar coordinates, where a is the half-width. Here we take a = 1.
REFERENCES
Babu Ram, Engineering Mathematics, Pearson, 2009. See example 8.15.
LINKS
Mandeep Beniwal, Volume of solid of revolution of lemniscate, Smart study helper, YouTube video, 2021.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Lemniscate.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Solid of Revolution.
FORMULA
Equals Pi^2/(4*sqrt(2)).
Equals 2 * A328895.
Equals Pi * A193887.
EXAMPLE
1.7447160499097198835393902340423513224799665677370105...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[Pi^2/(4*Sqrt[2]), 10, 120][[1]]
PROG
(PARI) Pi^2/(4*sqrt(2))
KEYWORD
nonn,cons,changed
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Apr 21 2026
STATUS
approved