A094642 Decimal expansion of log(Pi/2).

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

Offset

0,1

References

George Boros and Victor Moll, Irresistible Integrals: Symbolics, Analysis and Experiments in the Evaluation of Integrals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, Chap. 7.

Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein, Pi and the AGM, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1987, Chap. 11.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..104.

Dirk Huylebrouck, Similarities in irrationality proofs for Pi, ln2, zeta(2) and zeta(3), Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 108, No. 3 (2001), pp. 222-231.

Jonathan Sondow, A faster product for pi and a new integral for ln(pi/2), The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 112, No. 8 (2005), pp. 729-734; Editor's endnotes, ibid., Vol. 113, No. 7 (2006), pp. 670-671; arXiv preprint, arXiv:math/0401406 [math.NT], 2004.

Formula

Equals Sum_{n>=1} zeta(2*n)/(n*2^(2*n)) (cf. Boros & Moll p. 131). - Jean-François Alcover, Apr 29 2013

Equals Re(log(log(I))). - Stanislav Sykora, May 09 2015

Equals Integral_{-oo..+oo} -log(1/2 + i*z)/cosh(Pi*z) dz, where i is the imaginary unit. - Peter Luschny, Apr 08 2018

Equals Integral_{0..Pi/2} (2/(Pi-2*t)-tan(t)) dt. - Clark Kimberling, Jul 10 2020

Equals -Sum_{k>=1} log(1 - 1/(2*k)^2). - Amiram Eldar, Aug 12 2020

Equals Sum_{k>=1} (-1)^(k+1) * log(1 + 1/k). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 26 2021

Equals A053510 - A002162. - R. J. Mathar, Jun 15 2023

Example

log(Pi/2) = 0.45158270528945486472619522989488214357179467855505...

Mathematica

RealDigits[ Log[Pi/2], 10, 111][[1]]

Prog

(PARI) log(Pi/2) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 23 2014

Crossrefs

Cf. A019669, A094643.

Sequence in context: A073241 A336888 A336885 * A069284 A272638 A365464

Adjacent sequences: A094639 A094640 A094641 * A094643 A094644 A094645

Keyword

cons,easy,nonn

Author

Jonathan Sondow and Robert G. Wilson v, May 18 2004

Status

approved