OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Continued fraction expansion is 2 followed by {2, 4} repeated. - Harry J. Smith, Jun 05 2009
Ratio t*o/c^2 where t, o and c are respectively the edge lengths of a tetrahedron, an octahedron and a cube whose total surface areas are the same. See CNRS links. - Michel Marcus, Mar 03 2022 and Apr 21 2016
Diameter of a sphere whose surface area equals 6*Pi. More generally, the square root of x is also the diameter of a sphere whose surface area equals x*Pi. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 29 2024
LINKS
Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
Jason Kimberley, Index of expansions of sqrt(d) in base b
R. J. Nemiroff and J. Bonnell, Plouffe's Inverter, The first 1 million digits of the square root of 6
R. J. Nemiroff and J. Bonnell, The first 1 million digits of the square root of 6
Ana Rechtman, Avril 2016, 2e défi, Images des Mathématiques, CNRS, 2016.
Ana Rechtman, Avril 2016, 3e défi (Solution du 2e défi d’Avril), Images des Mathématiques, CNRS, 2016.
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
2.449489742783178098197284074705891391965947480656670128432692567250960...
Sqrt(6) = sqrt(1+i*sqrt(3)) + sqrt(1-i*sqrt(3)), where i=sqrt(-1). - Bruno Berselli, Nov 20 2012
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[N[Sqrt[6], 200]][[1]] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Feb 20 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=sqrt(6); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b010464.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ Harry J. Smith, Jun 01 2009
(PARI) sqrt(6) \\ Michel Marcus, Apr 21 2016
(Magma) SetDefaultRealField(RealField(100)); Sqrt(6); // Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 15 2020
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved