A242588 - OEIS

A242588

Decimal expansion of the expected reciprocal Euclidean distance between two random points in the unit cube.

1, 8, 8, 2, 3, 1, 2, 6, 4, 4, 3, 8, 9, 6, 6, 0, 1, 6, 0, 1, 0, 5, 6, 0, 0, 8, 3, 8, 8, 6, 8, 3, 6, 7, 5, 8, 7, 8, 5, 2, 4, 6, 2, 8, 8, 0, 3, 1, 0, 7, 0, 7, 9, 6, 0, 5, 5, 2, 9, 3, 2, 3, 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 2, 1, 0, 3, 7, 9, 6, 1, 0, 6, 0, 3, 5, 8, 1, 2, 7, 2, 3, 9, 9, 9, 9, 1, 4, 8, 4, 5, 6, 2, 0, 4, 2

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OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 8.1, p. 480.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..100.

D. H. Bailey, J. M. Borwein, R. E. Crandall, Advances in the theory of box integrals Math. Comp. 79 (2010), 1839-1866, p. 24.

Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Cube Point Picking

FORMULA

Integral over a unit cube of 1/sqrt((r1-q1)^2 + (r2-q2)^2 + (r3-q3)^2) dr1 dr2 dr3 dq1 dq2 dq3 = 2*(1/5*(sqrt(2) + 1 - 2*sqrt(3)) - log((sqrt(2) - 1)*(2 - sqrt(3))) - Pi/3).

EXAMPLE

1.88231264438966016010560083886836758785246288...

MATHEMATICA

2*(1/5*(Sqrt[2] + 1 - 2*Sqrt[3]) - Log[(Sqrt[2] - 1)*(2 - Sqrt[3])] - Pi/3) // RealDigits[#, 10, 100]& // First

CROSSREFS

Cf. A073012, A097047, A135691.

Sequence in context: A366149 A197848 A224875 * A105193 A178678 A217459

Adjacent sequences: A242585 A242586 A242587 * A242589 A242590 A242591

KEYWORD

nonn,cons

AUTHOR

Jean-François Alcover, May 20 2014

STATUS

approved