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A019881 Decimal expansion of sin(2*Pi/5) (sine of 72 degrees).

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

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Circumradius of pentagonal pyramid (Johnson solid 2) with edge 1. - Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jul 19 2010
Circumscribed sphere radius for a regular icosahedron with unit edges. - Stanislav Sykora, Feb 10 2014
Side length of the particular golden rhombus with diagonals 1 and phi (A001622); area is phi/2 (A019863). Thus, also the ratio side/(shorter diagonal) for any golden rhombus. Interior angles of a golden rhombus are always A105199 and A137218. - Rick L. Shepherd, Apr 10 2017
An algebraic number of degree 4; minimal polynomial is 16x^4 - 20x^2 + 5, which has these smaller, other solutions (conjugates): -A019881 < -A019845 < A019845 (sine of 36 degrees). - Rick L. Shepherd, Apr 11 2017
This is length ratio of one half of any diagonal in the regular pentagon and the circumscribing radius. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 07 2018
Quartic number of denominator 2 and minimal polynomial 16x^4 - 20x^2 + 5. - Charles R Greathouse IV, May 13 2019
This gives the imaginary part of one of the members of a conjugate pair of roots of x^5 - 1, with real part (-1 + phi)/2 = A019827, where phi = A001622. A member of the other conjugte pair of roots is (-phi + sqrt(3 - phi)*i)/2 = (-A001622 + A182007*i)/2 = -A001622/2  + A019845*i. - Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 30 2022

			0.95105651629515357211643933337938214340569863412575022244730564443015317008...

Jan Gullberg, Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers, W. W. Norton & Co., NY & London, 1997, §12.4 Theorems and Formulas (Solid Geometry), p. 451.

Ivan Panchenko, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Golden Rhombus.
Wikipedia, Exact trigonometric constants.
Wikipedia, Platonic solid.
Wolfram Alpha, Johnson solid 2.
Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 4.

Cf. A001622, A019827, A102208, A179290 (inverse), A179292, A179294, A179449, A179450, A179451, A179452, A179552, A179553, A182007.

Cf. Platonic solids circumradii: A010503 (octahedron), A010527 (cube), A179296 (dodecahedron), A187110 (tetrahedron). - Stanislav Sykora, Feb 10 2014

SetDefaultRealField(RealField(100)); Sqrt((5 + Sqrt(5))/8); // G. C. Greubel, Nov 02 2018

Digits:=100: evalf(sin(2*Pi/5)); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 01 2014

RealDigits[Sqrt[(5 + Sqrt[5])/8], 10, 111]  (* Robert G. Wilson v *)
RealDigits[Sin[2 Pi/5], 10, 111][[1]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 07 2018 *)

default(realprecision, 120);
real(I^(1/5)) \\ Rick L. Shepherd, Apr 10 2017

Equals sqrt((5+sqrt(5))/8) = cos(Pi/10). - Zak Seidov, Nov 18 2006
Equals 2F1(13/20,7/20;1/2;3/4) / 2. - R. J. Mathar, Oct 27 2008
Equals the real part of i^(1/5). - Stanislav Sykora, Apr 25 2012
Equals A001622*A182007/2. - Stanislav Sykora, Feb 10 2014
Equals sin(2*Pi/5) = sqrt(2 + phi)/2 = -sin(3*Pi/5), with phi = A001622  - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 07 2018
Equals 2*A019845*A019863. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 17 2021

A174968 Decimal expansion of (1 + sqrt(2))/2.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Klaus Brockhaus, Apr 02 2010

a(n) is the diameter of the circle around the Vitruvian Man when the square has sides of unit length. See illustration in links. - Kival Ngaokrajang, Jan 29 2015
The iterated function z^2 - 1/4, starting from z = 0, gives a pretty good rational approximation of (-1)((1 + sqrt(2))/2 - 1) to more than eight decimal digits after just twenty steps. - Alonso del Arte, Apr 09 2016
This sequence describes the minimum Euclidean length of the optimal solution of the well-known Nine dots puzzle, published in Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of puzzles (1914), p. 301 since a valid polygonal chain satisfying the conditions of the above-mentioned problem is (0, 1)-(0, 3)-(3, 0)-(0, 0)-(2, 2), and its total length is equal to 5*(1 + sqrt(2)) = 12.071... (i.e., 10*(1 + sqrt(2))/2). - Marco Ripà, Jul 22 2024

			1.20710678118654752440084436210484903928483593768847...

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Kival Ngaokrajang, Illustration of Vitruvian Man and construction rule.
Marco Ripà, Shortest polygonal chains covering each planar square grid, arXiv:2207.08708v3 [math.CO], 2024.
Wikipedia, Vitruvian Man.
Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2.

Cf. A002193 (decimal expansion of sqrt(2)), A010685 (continued fraction expansion of (1 + sqrt(2))/2), A079291, A249403.

Apart from initial digits the same as A157214 and A010503.

First@RealDigits[(1 + Sqrt[2])/2, 10, 105] (* Michael De Vlieger, Jan 29 2015 *)

(1+sqrt(2))/2 \\ Altug Alkan, Apr 16 2016

Equals Product_{k>=2} (1 + (-1)^k/A079291(k)). - Amiram Eldar, Dec 03 2024

A069139 Egyptian fraction for square root of 1/2.

Original entry on oeis.org

2, 5, 141, 68575, 32089377154, 1644444237306316731482, 65593236350142721999718859354569312622907814

Offset: 0

Henry Bottomley, Apr 08 2002

nonn

			a(3) = 68575 since sqrt(1/2) = 0.707106781186..., 1/2 + 1/5 + 1/141 + 1/68574 = 0.707106781368... (which is too much) and 1/2 + 1/5 + 1/141 + 1/68575 = 0.707106781155... (which is not too much).

Jinyuan Wang, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Egyptian Fraction.
Index entries for sequences related to Egyptian fractions

Cf. A006487, A010503 (sqrt(1/2)).

a = {}; k = N[1/Sqrt[2], 1000]; Do[s = Ceiling[1/k]; AppendTo[a, s]; k = k - 1/s, {n, 1, 10}]; a (* Artur Jasinski, Sep 22 2008 *)

a(n) = ceiling(1/(1/sqrt(2) - Sum_{i=0..n-1} 1/a(i))).

A093825 Decimal expansion of Pi/(3*sqrt(2)).

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 0

Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 16 2004

Density of densest packing of equal spheres in three dimensions (achieved for example by the fcc lattice).

Atomic packing factor (APF) of the face-centered-cubic (fcc) and the hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) crystal lattices filled with spheres of the same diameter. - Stanislav Sykora, Sep 29 2014

			0.74048048969306104116931349834344894976910361489594837...

J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer, 3rd. ed., 1998. See p. 15, line n = 3.
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 94, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 8.7, p. 506.
Clifford A. Pickover, The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (2009), at p. 126.
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, Revised edition 1987, p. 29.

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..20000
James Grime and Brady Haran, The Best Way to Pack Spheres, Numberphile video (2018).
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, What are all the best sphere packings in low dimensions?, Discr. Comp. Geom., 13 (1995), 383-403.
Thomas C. Hales, Dense Sphere Packings, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
G. Nebe and N. J. A. Sloane, Home page for fcc lattice.
N. J. A. Sloane and Andrey Zabolotskiy, Table of maximal density of a packing of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space (some values are only conjectural).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Cubic Close Packing.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ellipsoid Packing.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sphere Packing.
Wikipedia, Atomic packing factor.
Index entries for sequences related to f.c.c. lattice.
Index entries for transcendental numbers.

Cf. A093824.
Cf. APF's of other crystal lattices: A019673 (simple cubic), A247446 (diamond cubic).
Cf. A161686 (continued fraction).
Related constants: A020769, A020789, A093766, A222066, A222067, A222068, A222069, A222070, A222071, A222072, A260646.

RealDigits[Pi/(3 Sqrt[2]), 10, 120][[1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 03 2012 *)

default(realprecision, 20080); x=10*Pi*sqrt(2)/6; for (n=0, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b093825.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ Harry J. Smith, Jun 18 2009

Pi/sqrt(18) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 11 2017

Equals A019670*A010503. - R. J. Mathar, Feb 05 2009

Equals Integral_{x >= 0} (4*x^2 + 1)/((2*x^2 + 1)*(8*x^2 + 1)) dx. - Peter Bala, Feb 12 2025

Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 10 2013

A020761 Decimal expansion of 1/2.

Original entry on oeis.org

5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Real part of all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function (assuming the Riemann hypothesis to be true). - Alonso del Arte, Jul 02 2011
Radius of a sphere with surface area Pi. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 09 2012
Radius of the midsphere (tangent to the edges) in a regular octahedron with unit edges. Also radius of the inscribed sphere (tangent to faces) in a cube with unit edges. - Stanislav Sykora, Mar 27 2014
Construct a rectangle of maximal area inside an arbitrary triangle. The ratio of the rectangle's area to the triangle's area is 1/2. - Rick L. Shepherd, Jul 30 2014

			1/2 = 0.50000000000000...

Michael Penn, A creative approach to a scary looking integral., YouTube video, 2020.
Michael Penn, I really like this sum!, YouTube video, 2021.
Wikipedia, Riemann zeta function
Wikipedia, Platonic solid
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1).

Cf. In platonic solids:
midsphere radii:
A020765 (tetrahedron),
A010503 (cube),
A019863 (icosahedron),
A239798 (dodecahedron);
insphere radii:
A020781 (tetrahedron),
A020763 (octahedron),
A179294 (icosahedron),
A237603 (dodecahedron).

Digits:=100; evalf(1/2); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Mar 27 2014

RealDigits[1/2, 10, 128][[1]] (* Alonso del Arte, Dec 13 2013 *)
LinearRecurrence[{1},{5,0},99] (* Ray Chandler, Jul 15 2015 *)

{ default(realprecision); x=1/2*10; for(n=1, 100, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; print1(d, ", ")) } \\ Felix Fröhlich, Jul 24 2014

a(n) = 5*(n==0); \\ Michel Marcus, Jul 25 2014

Equals Sum_{k>=1} (1/3^k). Hence 1/2 = 0.1111111111111... in base 3.
Cosine of 60 degrees, i.e., cos(Pi/3).
-zeta(0), zeta being the Riemann function. - Stanislav Sykora, Mar 27 2014
a(0) = 5; a(n) = 0, n > 0. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Mar 27 2014
a(n) = 5 * floor(1/(n + 1)). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Mar 27 2014
Equals 2*A019824*A019884. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 17 2021

A016655 Decimal expansion of log(32) = 5*log(2).

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

The function exp(x) has its maximum curvature where x = -(1/10)*5*log(2) = -log(2)/2 = 0.34657... - Dimitri Papadopoulos, Oct 27 2022

This maximum curvature occurs at the point with coordinates (x_M = -log(2)/2 = -(this constant)/10; y_M = sqrt(2)/2 = A010503) and is equal to 2*sqrt(3)/9 = A212886. - Bernard Schott, Dec 23 2022

			3.465735902799726547086160607290882840377500671801276270603400047466968...

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 2.

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].
O. Espinosa, V. H. Moll, On some integrals involving the Hurwitz Zeta function: Part 1, Raman. J. 6 (2002) 159-188, eq. (5.7)
Steven R. Finch, Errata and Addenda to Mathematical Constants, arXiv:2001.00578 [math.HO], 2020-2021.
R. S. Melham and A. G. Shannon, Inverse Trigonometric Hyperbolic Summation Formulas Involving Generalized Fibonacci Numbers, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1 (1995), pp. 32-40.
Paul J. Nahin, Inside interesting integrals, Undergrad. Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer (2020), chap 7.1
H. M. Srivastava, M. L. Glasser, V. S. Adamchik, Some definite integrals associated with the Riemann Zeta Function, Z. Anal. Anw. 19 (3) (2000) 831-846
Index to sequences related to curves.
Index entries for transcendental numbers.

Cf. A000045, A000032, A060851, A195909, A195913, A195697, A016460 (continued fraction).

Cf. A010503, A212886.

[5*Log(2)]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 02 2016

RealDigits[5 N [Log[2], 100]] [[1]] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 02 2016 *)

log(32) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 24 2012

log(2)/2 = (1 - 1/2 - 1/4) + (1/3 - 1/6 - 1/8) + (1/5 - 1/10 - 1/12) + ... [Jolley, Summation of Series, Dover (1961) eq (73)]
Equals 10*log(2)/2 = 5*log(2) = 5*A002162, so 10*(1/2 - 1/4 + 1/6 - 1/8 + 1/10 - ... + (-1)^(k+1)/(2*k) + ...) = log(32). - Eric Desbiaux, Nov 26 2008
-log(2)/2 = lim_{n->oo} ((Sum_{k=2..n} arctanh(1/k)) - log(n)). - Jean-François Alcover, Aug 07 2014, after Steven Finch
Equals log(sqrt(2)) with offset 0. - Michel Marcus, Feb 19 2017
Equals (5/4)*Sum_{k=1..4} (-1)^(k+1) gamma(0, k/4) where gamma(n,x) denotes the generalized Stieltjes constants. - Peter Luschny, May 16 2018
From Amiram Eldar, Jun 29 2020: (Start)
log(2)/2 = arctanh(1/3) = arcsinh(1/sqrt(8)).
log(2)/2 = Integral_{x=0..Pi/4} tan(x) dx.
log(2)/2 = Sum_{k>=0} (-1)^k/(2*k+2).
log(2)/2 = Sum_{k>=1} 1/A060851(k). (End)
log(2)/2 = Sum_{k>=1} (-1)^(k+1) * arctanh(Lucas(2*k+3)/Fibonacci(2*k+3)^2) (Melham and Shannon, 1995). - Amiram Eldar, Jan 15 2022
Equals 10 * Integral_{1..oo} dx/(x*(1+x^2)). [Nahin] - R. J. Mathar, May 22 2024
Equals -10*Integral_{q=0..1} q*log(sin(Pi*q))dq. [Espinosa] - R. J. Mathar, Aug 13 2024
log(2)/2 = Sum_{k>=2} (-1)^(k) * arccoth(k). - Antonio Graciá Llorente, Sep 16 2024
-0.34657359... = Sum_{k>=0} zeta(2k)/((2k+1)*2^(2k)), [Srivastava (2.20)] - R. J. Mathar, Feb 12 2020
Equals 10*Integral_{x=0..1} Ei((1 + sqrt(2))*log(x)) - li(x) dx, where Ei is the exponential integral and li is the logarithmic integral. - Kritsada Moomuang, Jun 06 2025

A020765 Decimal expansion of 1/sqrt(8).

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Multiplied by 10, this is the real and the imaginary part of sqrt(25i). - Alonso del Arte, Jan 11 2013
Radius of the midsphere (tangent to the edges) in a regular tetrahedron with unit edges. - Stanislav Sykora, Nov 20 2013
The side of the largest cubical present that can be wrapped (with cutting) by a unit square of wrapping paper. See Problem 10716 link. - Michel Marcus, Jul 24 2018
The ratio between the thickness and diameter of a geometrically fair coin having an equal probability, 1/3, of landing on each of its two faces and on its side after being tossed in the air. The calculation is based on comparing the areal projections of the faces and sides of the coin on a circumscribing sphere. (Mosteller, 1965). See A020760 for a physical solution. - Amiram Eldar, Sep 01 2020

			1/sqrt(8) = 0.353553390593273762200422181052424519642417968844237018294...

Frederick Mosteller, Fifty challenging problems of probability, Dover, New York, 1965. See problem 38, pp. 10 and 58-60.

Ivan Panchenko, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Michael L. Catalano-Johnson, Daniel Loeb and John Beebee, A cubical gift: Problem 10716, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 81-82.
Wikipedia, Tetrahedron.
Wikipedia, Platonic solid.
Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2

Cf. Midsphere radii in Platonic solids:
A020761 (octahedron),
A010503 (cube),
A019863 (icosahedron),
A239798 (dodecahedron).

Digits:=100; evalf(1/sqrt(8)); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Mar 27 2014

RealDigits[N[1/Sqrt[8], 200]] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, May 27 2010 *)
realDigitsRecip[Sqrt[8]] (* The realDigitsRecip program is at A021200 *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 05 2025 *)

sqrt(1/8) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 25 2016

A010503 divided by 2.
Equals A201488 minus 1/2. Equals 1/(A010487-4) minus 1/4. - Jon E. Schoenfield, Jan 09 2017
Equals Integral_{x=0..oo} x*exp(-x)*BesselJ(0,x) dx. - Kritsada Moomuang, Jun 03 2025

A239798 Decimal expansion of the midsphere radius in a regular dodecahedron with unit edges.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

Stanislav Sykora, Mar 27 2014

In a regular polyhedron, the midsphere is tangent to all edges.

Apart from leading digits the same as A019863 and A019827. - R. J. Mathar, Mar 30 2014

			1.30901699437494742410229341718281905886015458990288143106772431135263...

Stanislav Sykora, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..2000
Wikipedia, Platonic solid.
Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2.

Cf. A000045, A001622, A001654, A019827, A019863, A066983, A094884, A104457, A187799.

Midsphere radii in Platonic solids: A020765 (tetrahedron), A020761 (octahedron), A010503 (cube), A019863 (icosahedron).

Digits:=100: evalf((3+sqrt(5))/4); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Mar 27 2014

RealDigits[GoldenRatio^2/2,10,105][[1]] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 27 2014 *)

PARI
```
(3+sqrt(5))/4
```

Equals phi^2/2, phi being the golden ratio (A001622).
Equals (3+sqrt(5))/4.
Equals lim_{n->oo} A000045(n)/A066983(n). - Dimitri Papadopoulos, Nov 23 2023
Equals Product_{k>=2} (1 + (-1)^k/A001654(k)). - Amiram Eldar, Dec 02 2024
Equals A094884^2 = A104457/2 = 10/A187799. - Hugo Pfoertner, Dec 02 2024

A016826 a(n) = (4n + 2)^2.

Original entry on oeis.org

4, 36, 100, 196, 324, 484, 676, 900, 1156, 1444, 1764, 2116, 2500, 2916, 3364, 3844, 4356, 4900, 5476, 6084, 6724, 7396, 8100, 8836, 9604, 10404, 11236, 12100, 12996, 13924, 14884, 15876, 16900, 17956

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

A bisection of A016742. Sequence arises from reading the line from 4, in the direction 4, 36, ... in the square spiral whose vertices are the squares A000290. - Omar E. Pol, May 24 2008

Harvey P. Dale, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3,-3,1).

Equals A001539 + 1.

Cf. A000290, A010503, A016742, A016754, A016802, A016814, A016838.

A016826:=n->(4*n + 2)^2; seq(A016826(n), n=0..40); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Feb 24 2014

(4*Range[0,40]+2)^2 (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{3,-3,1},{4,36,100},40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 24 2011 *)

a(n)=(4*n+2)^2 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 07 2015

a(n) = a(n-1) + 32*n (with a(0)=4). - Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 15 2010
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3), with a(0)=4, a(1)=36, a(2)=100. - Harvey P. Dale, Nov 24 2011
G.f.: -((4*(x^2+6*x+1))/(x-1)^3). - Harvey P. Dale, Nov 24 2011
a(n) = A000290(A016825(n)). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Feb 24 2014
From Amiram Eldar, Jun 28 2020: (Start)
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = Pi^2/32.
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = G/4, where G is the Catalan constant (A006752). (End)
From Amiram Eldar, Jan 29 2021: (Start)
Product_{n>=0} (1 + 1/a(n)) = cosh(Pi/4).
Product_{n>=0} (1 - 1/a(n)) = 1/sqrt(2) (A010503). (End)

A019884 Decimal expansion of sine of 75 degrees.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

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N. J. A. Sloane

Also the real part of i^(1/6). - Stanislav Sykora, Apr 25 2012

Length of one side of the new Type 15 Convex Pentagon. - Michel Marcus, Aug 04 2015

			0.96592582628906828674974319972889736763390483900840455040234307631042...

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Casey Mann et al, Type 15 Convex Pentagon, Jul 29 2015.
Wikipedia, Trigonometric constants expressed in real radicals.
Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 4

Cf. A120683.

RealDigits[Sin[75 Degree], 10, 100][[1]] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 11 2014 *)

cos(Pi/12) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 25 2012

Equals cos(Pi/12) = [1+sqrt(3)]/[2*sqrt(2)] = A090388 * A020765. - R. J. Mathar, Jun 18 2006
Equals A019859 * A019874 + A019834 * A019849 = A019881 * A019896 + A019812 * A019827 . - R. J. Mathar, Jan 27 2021
Equals 1/(sqrt(6) - sqrt(2)) = 1/A120683. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 04 2022
Largest of the 4 real-valued roots of 16*x^4 -16*x^2 +1=0. - R. J. Mathar, Aug 29 2025
4*this^3 -3*this = A010503. - R. J. Mathar, Aug 29 2025
Equals 2F1(-1/8,1/8 ;1/2;3/4) = 2F1(-1/6,1/6;1/2;1/2). - R. J. Mathar, Aug 31 2025

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