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A319188

Decimal expansion of Rutherford constant.

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

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OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

This constant is named after British physicist Paul Harding Rutherford. It appears in his equation of growth of nonlinear magnetic islands in tokamaks. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 14 2020

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..86.

Paul Harding Rutherford, Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 11 (1973), pp. 1903-1908, alternative link.

A. Samain, Diamagnetic destabilization of magnetic islands in the non-linear regime, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 26, No. 5 (1984), pp. 731-747.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rutherford Constant

EXAMPLE

0.8227058113039496...

CROSSREFS

Cf. A321592 for continued fraction expansion.

Sequence in context: A072691 A021928 A185111 * A086058 A241017 A114314

Adjacent sequences: A319185 A319186 A319187 * A319189 A319190 A319191

KEYWORD

cons,nonn

AUTHOR

Kritsada Moomuang, Dec 17 2018

STATUS

approved