A226204 Decimal expansion of the length (in meters) of the seconds pendulum, a pendulum whose period is two seconds at standard gravity.

9, 9, 3, 6, 2, 2

Offset: 0

Author

Jean-François Alcover, May 31 2013

Keywords

• nonn
• cons

Comments

This length is very close to 1 because g ~ 9.81 is very close to Pi^2 ~ 9.87. Its equivalent in inches is 39.1189.

Examples

			0.993622
		

Links

• P. Agnoli and G. D’Agostini, Why does the meter beat the second? arXiv:physics/0412078 [physics.hist-ph] 25 Jan 2005
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, The seconds pendulum
• Wikipedia, Seconds pendulum

Crossrefs

Cf. A072915

Programs

Mathematica

g/Pi^2 /. g -> 9.80665`6 // RealDigits // First

Formula

g/Pi^2