A348721 Decimal expansion of 4*cos(4*Pi/13)*cos(6*Pi/13).

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Author

Peter Bala, Oct 31 2021

Keywords

• nonn
• cons
• easy

Comments

Let a be an integer and let p be a prime of the form a^2 + 3*a + 9 (see A005471). Shanks introduced a family of cyclic cubic fields generated by the roots of the polynomial x^3 - a*x^2 - (a + 3)*x - 1.

In the case a = 1, corresponding to the prime p = 13, Shanks' cyclic cubic is x^3 - x^2 - 4*x - 1 of discriminant 13^2. The three real roots of the cubic are r_0 = 4*cos(2*Pi/13)*cos(3*Pi/13) = 2.6510934089..., r_1 = - 4*cos(4*Pi/13)*cos(6*Pi/13) = - 0.2738905549... and r_2 = - 4*cos(8*Pi/13)*cos(12*Pi/13) = - 1.3772028539.... Here we consider the absolute value of the root r_1.

See A348720 and A348722 for the other two roots.

Examples

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Links

• T. W. Cusick and Lowell Schoenfeld, A table of fundamental pairs of units in totally real cubic fields, Math. Comp. 48 (1987), 147-158 (see case 4 in the Table)
• D. Shanks, The simplest cubic fields, Math. Comp., 28 (1974), 1137-1152

Crossrefs

Cf. A160389, A255240, A255241, A255249, A348720 - A348729.

Programs

Maple

evalf(4*cos(4*Pi/13)*cos(6*Pi/13), 100);

Mathematica

RealDigits[4*Cos[4*Pi/13]*Cos[6*Pi/13], 10, 100][[1]] (* Amiram Eldar, Nov 08 2021 *)

Formula

Equals 2*(cos(2*Pi/13) - cos(3*Pi/13)).

Equals sin(Pi/13)*sin(5*Pi/13)/(sin(4*Pi/13)*sin(6*Pi/13)).

Equals Product_{n >= 0} (13*n+1)*(13*n+5)*(13*n+8)*(13*n+12)/( (13*n+4)*(13*n+6)*(13*n+7)*(13*n+9) ).

Equivalently, let z = exp(2*Pi*i/13). Then the constant = abs( (1 - z)*(1 - z^5)/ ((1 - z^4)*(1 - z^6)) ).

Note: C = {1, 5, 8, 12} is the subgroup of nonzero cubic residues in the finite field Z_13 with cosets 2*C = {2, 3, 10, 11} and 4*C = {4, 6, 7, 9}.

Equals (-1)^(2/13) - (-1)^(3/13) + (-1)^(10/13) - (-1)^(11/13). - Peter Luschny, Nov 08 2021