Bloch Constant

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
September 16, 2007

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/Constants/BlochConstant.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BlochConstant.html.

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Conjectured Value

B1=(1/(Sqrt[1+Sqrt[3]]))((Gamma[1/3]Gamma[11/12])/(Gamma[1/4]))

B2=(Sqrt[π])(2^(1/4))((Gamma[(1/3)])/(Gamma[(1/4)]))(Sqrt[((Gamma[(11/12)])/(Gamma[(1/12)]))])

LeafCount/@{B1,B2}

FullSimplify/@{B1,B2}

FullSimplify[B1-B2]

PossibleZeroQ[%]

N[{B1,B2},20]