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A103712 Decimal expansion of the expected distance from a randomly selected point in the unit square to its center: (sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6.

%I A103712 #74 Feb 16 2025 08:32:56
%S A103712 3,8,2,5,9,7,8,5,8,2,3,2,1,0,6,3,4,5,6,7,2,3,8,3,0,0,8,1,9,8,2,4,8,3,
%T A103712 9,7,9,3,2,9,7,2,0,3,3,9,3,9,7,6,3,9,1,3,9,8,8,3,2,9,2,2,4,4,4,0,6,8,
%U A103712 4,9,4,3,7,8,0,6,8,8,8,5,4,4,4,7,3,4,9,0,7,1,0,3,9,6,4,9,6,0,2,5,9,8,6,2,5
%N A103712 Decimal expansion of the expected distance from a randomly selected point in the unit square to its center: (sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6.
%C A103712 Is it a coincidence that this constant is equal to 1/6 of the universal parabolic constant A103710? (Reese, 2004; Finch, 2012)
%C A103712 exp(d(2)) - exp(d(2))/Pi = 0.9994179247351742... ~ 1 - 1/1718. - _Gerald McGarvey_, Feb 21 2005
%C A103712 Take a point on a line of irrational slope and a line segment of a given length centered at the point, integrate the distance of a point on the line to the set of lattice points along the line segment, and divide by the length. The limit as the length approaches infinity can be shown by a generalization of the Equidistribution Theorem to give the expected distance of a point in the unit square to its corners, this constant. - _Thomas Anton_, Jun 19 2021
%D A103712 Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, section 8.1.
%D A103712 S. Reese, A universal parabolic constant, 2004, preprint.
%H A103712 Ivan Panchenko, <a href="/A103712/b103712.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>
%H A103712 Steven R. Finch, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00578">Mathematical Constants, Errata and Addenda</a>, 2012, section 8.1.
%H A103712 Sylvester Reese, <a href="https://adelphi.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=036c3e0a-935d-43b7-9042-1e8676a908fc">Pohle Colloquium Video Lecture: The universal parabolic constant</a>, February 2005.
%H A103712 Sylvester Reese, Jonathan Sondow and Eric W. Weisstein, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniversalParabolicConstant.html">MathWorld: Universal Parabolic Constant</a>.
%H A103712 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniversalParabolicConstant.html">Universal Parabolic Constant</a>.
%H A103712 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareLinePicking.html">Square Line Picking</a>.
%H A103712 Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_parabolic_constant">Universal parabolic constant</a>.
%H A103712 <a href="/index/Tra#transcendental">Index entries for transcendental numbers</a>.
%F A103712 Equals (1/3)*Integral_{x = 0..1} sqrt(1 + x^2) dx. - _Peter Bala_, Feb 28 2019
%F A103712 Equals Integral_{x>=1} arcsinh(x)/x^4 dx. - _Amiram Eldar_, Jun 26 2021
%F A103712 Equals A244921 / 2. - _Amiram Eldar_, Jun 04 2023
%e A103712 0.38259785823210634567238300819824839793297203393976391398832922444...
%t A103712 RealDigits[(Sqrt[2] + Log[1 + Sqrt[2]])/6, 10, 111][[1]] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Feb 14 2005 *)
%o A103712 (Maxima) fpprec: 100$ ev(bfloat((sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6)); /* _Martin Ettl_, Oct 17 2012 */
%o A103712 (PARI) (sqrt(2) + log(1 + sqrt(2)))/6 \\ _G. C. Greubel_, Sep 22 2017
%Y A103712 Equal to (A002193 + A091648)/6 = (A103710)/6 = (A103711)/3.
%Y A103712 Cf. A244921.
%K A103712 cons,easy,nonn
%O A103712 0,1
%A A103712 Sylvester Reese and _Jonathan Sondow_, Feb 13 2005