OFFSET
0,1
LINKS
Pedro Freitas, Integrals of polylogarithmic functions, recurrence relations, and associated Euler sums, Math. Comput., Vol. 74, No. 251 (2005), pp. 1425-1440.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polylogarithm.
FORMULA
Equals 132*zeta(2)^2 - 264*zeta(3)*zeta(2) + 180*zeta(4)*zeta(2) - 96*zeta(5)*zeta(2) + 40*zeta(6)*zeta(2) - 12*zeta(7)*zeta(2) + 2*zeta(8)*zeta(2) - 6006*zeta(2) + 132*zeta(3)^2 + 62*zeta(4)^2 + 20*zeta(5)^2 + 6*zeta(6)^2 + 2*zeta(7)^2 + zeta(8)^2 - 4290*zeta(3) - 180*zeta(3)*zeta(4) + 2970*zeta(4) + 96*zeta(3)*zeta(5) - 68*zeta(4)*zeta(5) - 1650*zeta(5) - 40*zeta(3)*zeta(6) + 30*zeta(4)*zeta(6) - 20*zeta(5)*zeta(6) + 750*zeta(6) + 12*zeta(3)*zeta(7) - 10*zeta(4)*zeta(7) + 8*zeta(5)*zeta(7) - 6*zeta(6)*zeta(7) - 270*zeta(7) - 2*zeta(3)*zeta(8) + 2*zeta(4)*zeta(8) - 2*zeta(5)*zeta(8) + 2*zeta(6)*zeta(8) - 2*zeta(7)*zeta(8) + 70*zeta(8) - 10*zeta(9) + 12870.
EXAMPLE
0.335356723470484572274719476806942267087601355961018026234940074798437...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[12870 - 1001*Pi^2 + 110*Pi^4/3 + 71*Pi^6/63 + 209*Pi^8/9450 + 11*Pi^10/28350 + Pi^12/110250 + Pi^14/4465125 + Pi^16/89302500 - 4290*Zeta[3] - 44*Pi^2*Zeta[3] - 2*Pi^4*Zeta[3] - 8/189*Pi^6*Zeta[3] - Pi^8*Zeta[3]/4725 + 132*Zeta[3]^2 - 1650*Zeta[5] - 16*Pi^2*Zeta[5] - 34/45*Pi^4*Zeta[5] - 4/189*Pi^6*Zeta[5] - Pi^8*Zeta[5]/4725 + 96*Zeta[3]*Zeta[5] + 20*Zeta[5]^2 - 270*Zeta[7] - 2*Pi^2*Zeta[7] - 1/9*Pi^4*Zeta[7] - 2/315*Pi^6*Zeta[7] - Pi^8*Zeta[7]/4725 + 12*Zeta[3]*Zeta[7] + 8*Zeta[5]*Zeta[7] + 2*Zeta[7]^2 - 10*Zeta[9], 10, 110][[1]]
(* Alternative: *)
NIntegrate[PolyLog[8, x]^2, {x, 0, 1}, WorkingPrecision->110]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 01 2026
STATUS
approved
