A187110 Decimal expansion of sqrt(3/8).

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

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Author

Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 05 2011

Keywords

• nonn
• cons

Comments

Apart from leading digits, the same as A174925.

Radius of the circumscribed sphere (congruent with vertices) for a regular tetrahedron with unit edges. - Stanislav Sykora, Nov 20 2013

Examples

			sqrt(3/8)=0.61237243569579452454932101867647284799148687016417..
		

References

• Jan Gullberg, Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers, W. W. Norton & Co., NY & London, 1997, §12.4 Theorems and Formulas (Solid Geometry), p. 450.

Links

• Michael Penn, Maximize the area of one ellipse!, YouTube video, 2020.
• Wikipedia, Tetrahedron.
• Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2.

Crossrefs

Cf. A002194, A010464, A010466, A020781, A040001, A040005, A115754, A301755.

Cf. Platonic solids circumradii: A010503 (octahedron), A010527 (cube), A019881 (icosahedron), A179296 (dodecahedron). - Stanislav Sykora, Feb 10 2014

Programs

Mathematica

RealDigits[N[Sqrt[3/8],300]][[1]]

PARI

sqrt(3/8) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 16 2022

Formula

Equals A010464/4. - Stefano Spezia, Jan 26 2025

Equals 3*A020781 = A115754/2 = sqrt(A301755). - Hugo Pfoertner, Jan 26 2025