// y-cruncher Custom Formula File // // This can be loaded directly from the Custom Compute menu or // entered from the command line as "custom:filename". // // y-cruncher custom custom:"constant - algorithm" // // // Author: Alexander J. Yee // Date: September 29, 2018 // // Value: 0.91596559417721901505460351493238411077414937428167... // // Original formula by Guillera (2008). Optimized as follows: // // 1 inf ( (-8)^k (3k+2) k!^6 ) // Catalan = --- SUM (--------------------) // 2 k=0 ( (2k+1)!^3 ) // // https://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.0396.pdf // http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/internals/binary-splitting-library.html#catalan_guillera // { NameShort : "Catalan" NameLong : "Catalan's Constant" AlgorithmShort : "Guillera (2008)" AlgorithmLong : "Guillera (2008)" Formula : { SeriesHypergeometric : { CoefficientP : 1 CoefficientQ : 2 CoefficientD : 2 PolynomialP : [0 0 0 2 3] PolynomialQ : [-1 -6 -12 -8] PolynomialR : [0 0 0 1] } } }