Template:Sequence of the Day for February 16

Intended for: February 16, 2013

Timetable

• First draft entered by Alonso del Arte on April 6, 2012 ✓
• Draft to be reviewed by December 16, 2011
• Draft to be approved by January 16, 2012

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A072508: Decimal expansion of Backhouse’s constant.

1.456074948582689...

Given

x

being the real zero of

1 + ∑ ∞ k  = 1  pk x k

, Backhouse’s constant is

−    1   x

. It almost seems like

x

should also be a constant named after a person.