A254140 Decimal expansion of the average reciprocal distance between two points chosen at random in a unit square.
2, 9, 7, 3, 2, 0, 9, 5, 9, 8, 2, 4, 7, 3, 7, 8, 7, 0, 2, 5, 2, 8, 1, 8, 5, 6, 6, 7, 6, 3, 9, 5, 7, 1, 7, 9, 8, 0, 1, 9, 7, 4, 5, 4, 7, 9, 2, 1, 0, 6, 1, 0, 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7, 6, 0, 9, 4, 5, 0, 6, 2, 5, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 7, 1, 9, 6, 1, 6, 3, 2, 8, 6, 7, 6, 4, 4, 1, 8, 8, 5, 3, 7, 5, 0, 2, 0, 7, 4, 4, 4, 6, 9, 4
Offset: 1
Examples
2.97320959824737870252818566763957179801974547921061 ...
Links
- D. H. Bailey, J. M. Borwein, R. E. Crandall, Advances in the theory of box integrals Math. Comp. 79 (2010), 1839-1866, p. 24.
- Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Square Line Picking
Crossrefs
Cf. A091505.
Programs
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Mathematica
RealDigits[4/3 - 4*Sqrt[2]/3 + 4*Log[1 + Sqrt[2]], 10, 105] // First
Formula
Integral over a unit square of 1/sqrt((r1-q1)^2 + (r2-q2)^2) dr1 dr2 dq1 dq2 = 4/3 - 4*sqrt(2)/3 + 4*log(1 + sqrt(2)).