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A374643
Decimal expansion of 12*Li_2(1/2), where Li_2(z) is the dilogarithm function.
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6, 9, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6, 3, 1, 7, 5, 8, 0, 1, 5, 0, 0, 7, 0, 8, 3, 1, 8, 7, 5, 8, 4, 1, 9, 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 3, 0, 4, 9, 3, 0, 3, 8, 1, 6, 9, 7, 6, 7, 3, 5, 1, 7, 1, 0, 5, 2, 1, 2, 1, 6, 4, 5, 7, 4, 4, 7, 8, 0, 5, 2, 5, 2, 8, 8, 6, 0, 1, 9, 8, 4, 0, 9, 8, 0, 2, 0, 8, 3, 8, 2
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
David Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Simon Plouffe, On the Rapid Computation of Various Polylogarithmic Constants, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 66, No. 218, April 1997, pp. 903-913.
David H. Bailey and Richard E. Crandall, On the Random Character of Fundamental Constant Expansions, Experimental Mathematics, Vol. 10 (2001), Issue 2, pp. 175-190 (preprint draft).
Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Dilogarithm.
Wikipedia, Dilogarithm.
FORMULA
Equals 12*A076788.
Equals Pi^2 - 6*log(2)^2 = A002388 - 6*A253191 = 12*Sum_{k >= 1} 1/((2^k)*(k^2)). See Bailey et al. (1997), eq. 2.7, p. 906 and Bailey and Crandall (2001), p. 184.
EXAMPLE
6.98688631758015007083187584191616130493038169767...
MATHEMATICA
First[RealDigits[12*PolyLog[2, 1/2], 10, 100]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Paolo Xausa, Jul 15 2024
STATUS
approved