%I #49 Aug 17 2020 02:08:04

%S 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,

%T 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,

%U 1,1,3,8,1,7,4,8,1,4,3,8,8,3,6,2,4,9,1

%N Decimal expansion of Rutherford constant.

%C 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

%H Paul Harding Rutherford, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1694232">Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode</a>, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 11 (1973), pp. 1903-1908, <a href="https://courses.physics.ucsd.edu/2012/Spring/physics218c/Rutherford.pdf">alternative link</a>.

%H A. Samain, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/26/5/004">Diamagnetic destabilization of magnetic islands in the non-linear regime</a>, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 26, No. 5 (1984), pp. 731-747.

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RutherfordConstant.html">Rutherford Constant</a>

%e 0.8227058113039496...

%Y Cf. A321592 for continued fraction expansion.

%K cons,nonn

%O 0,1

%A _Kritsada Moomuang_, Dec 17 2018