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A013662 Decimal expansion of zeta(4).

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

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

			1.082323233711138191516003696541167...

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 811.
Louis Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 89, Exercise.
John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See p. 262.
Richard K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 3rd Edition, Springer, 2004, Section F17, Series associated with the zeta-function, p. 391.
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifschitz, Band V, Statistische Physik, Akademie Verlag, 1966, pp. 172 and 180-181.
Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Bigger Primes, Springer-Verlag NY 2004. See p. 162.
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, Revised edition 1987, p. 33.

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].
Peter Bala, New series for old functions.
D. H. Bailey, J. M. Borwein, and D. M. Bradley, Experimental determination of Apéry-like identities for zeta(4n+2), arXiv:math/0505270 [math.NT], 2005-2006.
D. Borwein and J. M. Borwein, On an intriguing integral and some series related to zeta(4) Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 123, No.4, April 1995.
J. M. Borwein, D. J. Broadhurst, and J. Kamnitzer, Central binomial sums, multiple Clausen values and zeta values arXiv:hep-th/0004153, 2000.
Leonhard Euler, On the sums of series of reciprocals, arXiv:math/0506415 [math.HO], 2005-2008.
Leonhard Euler, De summis serierum reciprocarum, E41.
Raffaele Marcovecchio and Wadim Zudilin, Hypergeometric rational approximations to zeta(4), arXiv:1905.12579 [math.NT], 2019.
Romeo Meštrović, Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of primes: a historical survey of its proofs (300 BC--2012) and another new proof, arXiv:1202.3670 [math.HO], 2012. - From _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jun 13 2012
Jean-Christophe Pain, An integral representation for zeta(4), arXiv:2309.00539 [math.NT], 2023.
Michael Penn, Finding a closed form for zeta(4), YouTube video, 2022.
Simon Plouffe, Pi^4/90 to 100000 digits.
Simon Plouffe, Zeta(4) or Pi^4/90 to 10000 places.
Simon Plouffe, Zeta(2) to Zeta(4096) to 2048 digits each (gzipped file).
K. Ramachandra, On series integrals and continued fractions I, Hardy-Ramanujan Journal, Vol. 4 (1981), pp. 1-11.
Carsten Schneider and Wadim Zudilin, A case study for zeta(4), arXiv:2004.08158 [math.NT], 2020.
Chuanan Wei, Some fast convergent series for the mathematical constants zeta(4) and zeta(5), arXiv:2303.07887 [math.CO], 2023.
Index entries for transcendental numbers.

Cf. A013661, A002117, A013663, A013664, A013665, A013666, A013667, A013668, A013669, A013670, A013671, A013672, A013673, A013674, A013675, A013676, A013677, A013678, A293904.
Cf. A231535, A337711.
Cf. A001008, A002805.
See also the extensive crossref table in A308637.

SetDefaultRealField(RealField(110)); L:=RiemannZeta(); Evaluate(L,4); // G. C. Greubel, May 30 2019

evalf(Pi^4/90,120); # Muniru A Asiru, Sep 19 2018

RealDigits[Zeta[4],10,120][[1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 18 2012 *)

ev(zeta(4),numer) ; /* R. J. Mathar, Feb 27 2012 */

default(realprecision, 20080); x=Pi^4/90; for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b013662.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ Harry J. Smith, Apr 29 2009

numerical_approx(zeta(4), digits=100) # G. C. Greubel, May 30 2019

zeta(4) = Pi^4/90 = A092425/90. - Harry J. Smith, Apr 29 2009
From Peter Bala, Dec 03 2013: (Start)
Definition: zeta(4) := Sum_{n >= 1} 1/n^4.
zeta(4) = (4/17)*Sum_{n >= 1} ( (1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/n)/n )^2 and
zeta(4) = (16/45)*Sum_{n >= 1} ( (1 + 1/3 + ... + 1/(2*n-1))/n )^2 (see Borwein and Borwein).
zeta(4) = (256/90)*Sum_{n >= 1} n^2*(4*n^2 + 3)*(12*n^2 + 1)/(4*n^2 - 1)^5.
Series acceleration formulas:
zeta(4) = (36/17)*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/( n^4*binomial(2*n,n) ) (Comtet)
        = (36/17)*Sum_{n >= 1} P(n)/( (2*n*(2*n - 1))^4*binomial(4*n,2*n) )
        = (36/17)*Sum_{n >= 1} Q(n)/( (3*n*(3*n - 1)*(3*n - 2))^4*binomial(6*n,3*n) ),
where P(n) = 80*n^4 - 48*n^3 + 24*n^2 - 8*n + 1 and Q(n) = 137781*n^8 - 275562*n^7 + 240570*n^6 - 122472*n^5 + 41877*n^4 - 10908*n^3 + 2232*n^2 - 288*n + 16 (see section 8 in the Bala link). (End)
zeta(4) = 2/3*2^4/(2^4 - 1)*( Sum_{n even} n^2*p(n)/(n^2 - 1)^5 ), where p(n) = 3*n^4 + 10*n^2 + 3 is a row polynomial of A091043. See A013664, A013666, A013668 and A013670. - Peter Bala, Dec 05 2013
zeta(4) = Sum_{n >= 1} ((floor(sqrt(n))-floor(sqrt(n-1)))/n^2). - Mikael Aaltonen, Jan 18 2015
zeta(4) = Product_{k>=1} 1/(1 - 1/prime(k)^4). - Vaclav Kotesovec, May 02 2020
From Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 16 2020: (Start)
zeta(4) = (1/3!)*Integral_{x=0..oo} x^3/(exp(x) - 1) dx. See Abramowitz-Stegun, 23.2.7., for s=2, p. 807, and Landau-Lifschitz, Band V, p. 172, eq. (4), for x=4. See also A231535.
zeta(4) = (4/21)*Integral_{x=0..oo} x^3/(exp(x) + 1) dx. See Abramowitz-Stegun, 23.2.8., for s=2, p. 807, and Landau-Lifschitz, Band V, p. 172, eq. (1), for x=4. See also A337711. (End)
zeta(4) = (72/17) * Integral_{x=0..Pi/3} x*(log(2*sin(x/2)))^2. See Richard K. Guy reference. - Bernard Schott, Jul 20 2022
From Peter Bala, Nov 12 2023: (Start)
zeta(4) = 1 + (4/3)*Sum_{k >= 1} (1 - 2*(-1)^k)/(k*(k + 1)^4*(k + 2)) = 35053/32400 + 48*Sum_{k >= 1} (1 - 2*(-1)^k)/(k*(k + 1)*(k + 2)*(k + 3)^4*(k + 4)*(k + 5)*(k + 6)).
More generally, it appears that for n >= 0, zeta(4) = c(n) + (4/3)*(2*n + 1)!^2 * Sum_{k >= 1} (1 - 2*(-1)^k)/( (k + 2*n + 1)^3*Product_{i = 0..4*n+2} (k + i) ), where {c(n) : n >= 0} is a sequence of rational approximations to zeta(4) beginning [1, 35053/32400, 2061943067/ 1905120000, 18594731931460103/ 17180389306080000, 257946156103293544441/ 238326360453941760000, ...]. (End)
From Peter Bala, Apr 27 2025: (Start)
zeta(4) = 1/4! * Integral_{x >= 0} x^4 * exp(x)/(exp(x) - 1)^2 dx = 8/7 * 1/4! * Integral_{x >= 0} x^4 * exp(x)/(exp(x) + 1)^2 dx.
zeta(4) = 1/5! * Integral_{x >= 0} x^5 * exp(x)*(exp(x) + 1)/(exp(x) - 1)^3 dx = 1/(3*5*7) * Integral_{x >= 0} x^5 * exp(x)*(exp(x) - 1)/(exp(x) + 1)^3 dx. (End)
10*zeta(4) = Sum_{k>=1} H(k)^3/(k*(k+1)), where H(k) = A001008(k)/A002805(k) is the k-th harmonic number (Ramachandra, 1981). - Amiram Eldar, May 30 2025
zeta(4) = Integral_{x=0..1} Li(3,x)/x dx, where Li(n,x) is the polylogarithm function. - Kritsada Moomuang, Jun 14 2025
zeta(4) = Sum_{i, j >= 1} 1/(i^3*j*binomial(i+j, i)) = 4/3 * Sum_{i, j >= 1} 1/(i^2*j^2*binomial(i+j, i)). - Peter Bala, Aug 03 2025

A340065 Decimal expansion of the Product_{p>=2} 1+p^2/((p-1)^2*(p+1)^2) where p are successive prime numbers A000040.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Artur Jasinski, Dec 28 2020

This is a rational number.
This constant does not belong to the infinite series of prime number products of the form: Product_{p>=2} (p^(2*n)-1)/(p^(2*n)+1),
which are rational numbers equal to zeta(4*n)/(zeta(2*n))^2 = A114362(n+1)/A114363(n+1).
This number has decimal period length 230:
1.81(0781476121562952243125904486251808972503617945007235890014471780028943
5600578871201157742402315484804630969609261939218523878437047756874095
5137481910274963820549927641099855282199710564399421128798842257597684
51519536903039073806).

			1.8107814761215629522431259...

Cf. A000040, A005361, A084920, A065483, A065484, A065485, A109695, A111003, A114362, A114363, A116393, A167864, A231535, A307868, A330523, A330595, A335319, A335762, A335818, A339925, A340066.

Mathematica
```
RealDigits[N[5005/2764,105]][[1]]
```

default(realprecision,105)
prodeulerrat(1+p^2/((p-1)^2*(p+1)^2))

Equals 5005/2764 = 5*7*11*13/(2^2*691).
Equals Product_{n>=1} 1+A000040(n)^2/A084920(n)^2.
Equals (13/9)*A340066.
From Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 29 2020: (Start)
Equals 3/2 * (Product_{p prime} (p^6+1)/(p^6-1)) * (Product_{p prime} (p^4+1)/(p^4-1)).
Equals 7*zeta(6)^2 / (4*zeta(12)).
Equals -7*binomial(12, 6) * Bernoulli(6)^2 / (8*Bernoulli(12)). (End)
Equals Sum_{k>=1} A005361(k)/k^2. - Amiram Eldar, Jan 23 2024

A257134 Decimal expansion of Pi^4/45.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Jean-François Alcover, Apr 16 2015

			2.16464646742227638303200739308233580554950190383745381536595243...

L. J. P. Kilford, Modular Forms: A Classical and Computational Introduction, Imperial College Press, 2008, p. 15.

Alain Tissier, Apéry's Constant, Solution to Problem 10635, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 10 (1999), pp. 965-966.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Eisenstein Series.
Index entries for transcendental numbers.

Cf. A013662, A092425, A231535, A257136.

Mathematica
```
RealDigits[Pi^4/45, 10, 105] // First
```

Pi^4/45 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 01 2022

Pi^4/45 = 2*zeta(4) = G_4(oo), where the function G_k(z) is the Eisenstein nonzero modular form of weight k.
Equals -Integral_{x=0..1} log(x)^2 * log(1 - x)/x dx. - Amiram Eldar, Jul 21 2020
Equals Sum_{n,m>=1} (Pi^2/6 - Sum_{k=1..n+m} 1/k^2)/(n*m) (Tissier, 1999). - Amiram Eldar, Jan 27 2024
Equals Integral_{x=0..1} Li(3,sqrt(x))/x dx, where Li(n,x) is the polylogarithm function. - Kritsada Moomuang, Jun 18 2025
Equals 2*A013662 = A231535/3. - Hugo Pfoertner, Jun 18 2025

A337710 Decimal expansion of 8Pi^6/63 = 5!zeta(6).

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 3

Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 16 2020

			122.081167438133896765742151574910463348218098803...

Index entries for transcendental numbers

Cf. A013664, A231535 (Integral with x^3).

RealDigits[8*Pi^6/63, 10, 100][[1]] (* Amiram Eldar, May 27 2021 *)

5!*zeta(6) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 01 2022

Equals Integral_{x>=0} x^5/(exp(x) - 1) dx = 5!*A013664.

Equals -Integral_{x=0..1} log(x)^5/(1-x) dx. - Amiram Eldar, May 27 2021

A337711 Decimal expansion of (7/120)Pi^4 = (21/4)zeta(4).

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 16 2020

Equals Integral_{0..infinity} x^3/(exp(x) + 1) dx = (7/120)*Pi^4 = (21/4)*A013662. (Fermi-Dirac). See Abramowitz-Stegun, 23.2.8, for s=4, p. 807, and Landau-Lifschitz, eq. (1), for x=4, p. 172.

			5.68219697698347550545901940684113148956744249757331626533562...

L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifschitz, Band V, Statistische Physik, Akademie Verlag, 1966, eq. (1) for x=4, p. 172.

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].
Index entries for transcendental numbers

Cf. A013662, A231535 (Planck, Bose-Einstein integral).

RealDigits[7*Pi^4/120, 10, 100][[1]] (* Amiram Eldar, May 27 2021 *)

Equals -Integral_{x=0..1} log(x)^3/(x+1) dx. - Amiram Eldar, May 27 2021

A340066 Decimal expansion of the Product_{p>=3} 1+p^2/((p-1)^2*(p+1)^2) where p are successive prime numbers A000040.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Artur Jasinski, Dec 28 2020

This is a rational number.
This constant does not belong to the infinite series of prime number products of the form: Product_{p>=2} (p^(2*n)-1)/(p^(2*n)+1),
which are rational numbers equal to zeta(4*n)/zeta^2(2*n) = A114362(n+1)/A114363(n+1).
This number has decimal period length 230:
1.25(3617945007235890014471780028943560057887120115774240231548480463096960
9261939218523878437047756874095513748191027496382054992764109985528219
9710564399421128798842257597684515195369030390738060781476121562952243
12590448625180897250).

			1.25361794500723589001447178...

Cf. A065483, A065484, A065485, A109695, A111003, A114362, A114363, A116393, A167864, A231535, A307868, A330523, A330595, A335319, A335762, A335818, A339925, A340065.

Mathematica
```
RealDigits[N[3465/2764, 105]][[1]]
```

default(realprecision, 105)
prodeulerrat(1+p^2/((p-1)^2*(p+1)^2),1,3)

Equals 3465/2764 = 3^2*5*7*11/(2^2*691).
Equals Product_{n>=2} 1+A000040(n)^2/A084920(n)^2.
Equals (9/13)*A340065.

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A013662 Decimal expansion of zeta(4).

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A257134 Decimal expansion of Pi^4/45.

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A337710 Decimal expansion of 8*Pi^6/63 = 5!*zeta(6).

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A337711 Decimal expansion of (7/120)*Pi^4 = (21/4)*zeta(4).

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A340066 Decimal expansion of the Product_{p>=3} 1+p^2/((p-1)^2*(p+1)^2) where p are successive prime numbers A000040.

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A365251 Decimal expansion of the absolute value of psi^(4)(1), the fourth derivative of the digamma function at 1.

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A337710 Decimal expansion of 8Pi^6/63 = 5!zeta(6).

A337711 Decimal expansion of (7/120)Pi^4 = (21/4)zeta(4).