S000236


Pi/4 - 1/2.

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

0

S000236

When a square is inscibed in a unit circle, this is the area of one of the four segments of the circle not in the square.

T. D. Noe, Plot of 1000 terms

T. D. Noe, Table of 1000 terms

Eric W. Weisstein, Circular segment

Wikipedia, Circular segment

This is Pi/n - sqrt((p^2+q^2)*((p-1)^2+q^2)), where p = (1 + cos(2*Pi/n))/2 and q = sin(2*Pi/n)/2 for n=4.

The number is 0.28539816339744830961566084581987572104929….

(Mma) RealDigits[Pi/4 - 1/2, 10, 105][[1]]

Cf. S000237, S000238 (circular segments for a 30-60-90 triangle)S000243-S000249.

nonn,cons,nice

T. D. Noe, Sep 02 2014

© Tony D Noe 2014-2015