A240946 Decimal expansion of the average distance traveled in three steps of length 1 for a random walk in the plane starting at the origin.

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

Offset: 1

Author

Jean-François Alcover, Aug 04 2014

Keywords

• nonn
• cons
• walk

Examples

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Links

• J. M. Borwein, A. Straub, J. Wan, and W. Zudilin, Densities of short uniform random walks, arXiv:1103.2995 [math.CA], (11-August-2011)
• Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants II, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, p. 464.

Crossrefs

Cf. A088538 (two steps).

Programs

Mathematica

(3*2^(1/3))/(16*Pi^4)*Gamma[1/3]^6 + (27*2^(2/3))/(4*Pi^4)*Gamma[2/3]^6 //
  RealDigits[#, 10, 100]& // First (* updated May 20 2015 *)

Formula

Integral_(0..3) x*p(x) dx, where p(x) = 2*sqrt(3)/Pi*x/(3+x^2) * 2F1(1/3, 2/3; 1; x^2*(9-x^2)^2/(3+x^2)^3), 2F1 being the hypergeometric function.

Re(3F2(-1/2, -1/2, 1/2; 1, 1; 4)).

(3*2^(1/3))/(16*Pi^4)*Gamma(1/3)^6 + (27*2^(2/3))/(4*Pi^4)*Gamma(2/3)^6.

Extensions

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