OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Average length of a line picked at random inside an equilateral triangle with unit side lengths.
This average was apparently first calculated by the Austrian mathematician Emanuel Czuber (1851-1925) in 1884. - Amiram Eldar, Mar 26 2026
LINKS
Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Uwe Bäsel, The moments of the distance between two random points in a regular polygon, arXiv:2101.03815 [math.PR], 2021.
Emanuel Czuber, Geometrische Wahrscheinlichkeiten und Mittelwerte, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1884, p. 206.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Triangle Line Picking.
EXAMPLE
0.36479184330021645370928678553837885569712358367341...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[(4 + 3 Log[3])/20, 10, 105][[1]] (* Michael De Vlieger, Apr 22 2021 *)
PROG
(PARI) (log(27)+4)/20 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 15 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 16 2004
STATUS
approved
