On Catalan's constant (Q2631147)
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On Catalan's constant (English)
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29 July 2016
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The author applies a new interesting method to prove the following result on Catalan's constant \(G=\sum^\infty_{k=0} (-1)^k/(2k+1)^2= 0.91596\dots\). {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[1)]There exists an efficient construction of an infinite sequence of rational numbers \(p/q\) satisfying the inequality \(0<|G-p/q|< 1/\sqrt{q}\). \item[2)] To construct the next approximation \(p/q\), one needs \(0(\ln^2q)\) arithmetic operations. We note that the irrationality of the constant \(G\) is not proved up to now. \end{itemize}}
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Catalan constant
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Diophantine approximations
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hypergeometric series
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