// 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... // // Formula by A. Lupas (2000): // // 1 inf ( (-1)^(k-1) 256^k (40k^2 - 24k + 3) (2k)!^3 k!^2 ) // Catalan = ---- SUM (-------------------------------------------------) // 64 k=0 ( k^3 (2k-1) (4k)!^2 ) // // http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/articles/alupas1.pdf // { NameShort : "Catalan" NameLong : "Catalan's Constant" AlgorithmShort : "Lupas" AlgorithmLong : "Lupas (2000)" Formula : { SeriesHypergeometric : { CoefficientP : 1 CoefficientQ : 19 CoefficientD : 18 PolynomialP : [0 0 0 -608 -576 2304 2560] PolynomialQ : [-9 -96 -352 -512 -256] PolynomialR : [0 0 0 -32 64] } } }