A201587 Decimal expansion of least x satisfying 4*x^2 = csc(x) and 0 < x < Pi.

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

Offset: 0

Author

Clark Kimberling, Dec 03 2011

Keywords

• nonn
• cons

Comments

See A201564 for a guide to related sequences. The Mathematica program includes a graph.

Examples

			least:  0.6448974755436738344433573900444745201701368...
greatest:  3.1158390512762535211310850151952082587811...
		

Links

• G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
• Index entries for transcendental numbers.

Crossrefs

Cf. A201564.

Programs

Mathematica

a = 4; c = 0;
f[x_] := a*x^2 + c; g[x_] := Csc[x]
Plot[{f[x], g[x]}, {x, 0, Pi}, {AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}}]
r = x /. FindRoot[f[x] == g[x], {x, .6, .7}, WorkingPrecision -> 110]
RealDigits[r]   (* A201587 *)
r = x /. FindRoot[f[x] == g[x], {x, 3.1, 3.14}, WorkingPrecision -> 110]
RealDigits[r]   (* A201588 *)

PARI

a=4; c=0; solve(x=0.6, 0.7, a*x^2 + c - 1/sin(x)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Aug 22 2018